I know this is a simple question but I don't have the knowledge to figure it out.
I am running RedHat 8.0 and which came with Mailman 2.0.13. It suggests adding the following to the httpd.conf file:
# Uncomment the following line, replacing www.example.com with your server's # name, to redirect queries to /mailman to the listinfo page (recommended). # RedirectMatch /mailman[/]*$ http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo
That used to work fine. I just upgraded to Mailman 2.1. I created the list "mailman" as instructed at the end of section 4 of the INSTALL document but cannot get to the administrative page http://www.example.com/mailman/admin/mailman or the list overview page http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo/mailman because "RedirectMatch" thinks it is http://www.example.com/mailman and just redirects it the top level listinfo page.
I am aware that I have two options:
- Rename the "mailman" list
- Remove the "RedirectMatch" statement from the httpd.conf file.
Is there a third? I tried fiddling with the regular expression, but I just do not know what I am doing. Any help would be appreciated.
Paul
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I think what you want to do to fix this is add a carat ("^") before the
first slash:
RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo
That way, it only catches it if "/mailman" occurs at the beginning of
the string.
Personally, I use a little more inclusive regular expression, because I
want it to also redirect any requests for the top level
(http://lists.example.com) to the listinfo page:
RewriteRule ^[/]{0,1}(mailman[/]{0,1}){0,1}$ /mailman/listinfo
[L,R]
I claim to be no master of regular expressions, though... because wow
that looks ugly. That notwithstanding, I think my advice on your
situation is correct.
Greg
On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 02:09 AM, Paul Kleeberg wrote:
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Just in case anyone was actually thinking of using that regexp I sent,
my limited knowledge tells me that this would be a slightly better
incarnation:
RewriteRule ^/(mailman[/]{0,1}){0,1}$ /mailman/listinfo [L,R]
Greg
On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 09:46 AM, Greg Westin wrote:
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At 14:46 18/01/2003, Greg Westin wrote:
What's wrong with:
RedirectMatch permanent ^/mailman(|/)$ /mailman/listinfoor, if you have mod_rewrite and the rewrite engine on:
RewriteRule ^/mailman(|/)$ /mailman/listinfo [R,L]or even better:
RewriteRule ^/mailman(|/)$ /mailman/listinfo [PT]The latter has the advantage, courtesy of the PT flag, of delivering the /mailman/listinfo page immediately instead of making the browser do a second request (each time it visits) to follow the redirection response produced by the initial request, if that request's URI path was /mailman or /mailman/
I don't know what the I or | or whatever that is does - I assume it
does the same thing as {0,1}. But the important difference between the
rule I use:
RewriteRule ^/(mailman[/]{0,1}){0,1}$ /mailman/listinfo [L,R]
and the ones you suggested is that mine also redirects requests for /
to /mailman/listinfo. You may or may not want that functionality, of
course. Again, I don't claim to be an expert in any of this stuff...
considering your comments, perhaps this would be the best for what I
want to do:
RewriteRule ^/(mailman(|/)){0,1}$ /mailman/listinfo [PT]
I don't know if you can use nested parentheses, and I don't know if the
PT flag is something I'd want, but whatever works...
Greg
On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 02:15 PM, Richard Barrett wrote:
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I think what you want to do to fix this is add a carat ("^") before the
first slash:
RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo
That way, it only catches it if "/mailman" occurs at the beginning of
the string.
Personally, I use a little more inclusive regular expression, because I
want it to also redirect any requests for the top level
(http://lists.example.com) to the listinfo page:
RewriteRule ^[/]{0,1}(mailman[/]{0,1}){0,1}$ /mailman/listinfo
[L,R]
I claim to be no master of regular expressions, though... because wow
that looks ugly. That notwithstanding, I think my advice on your
situation is correct.
Greg
On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 02:09 AM, Paul Kleeberg wrote:
-- http://www.gregwestin.com Contact info: http://www.gregwestin.com/contact.php
Just in case anyone was actually thinking of using that regexp I sent,
my limited knowledge tells me that this would be a slightly better
incarnation:
RewriteRule ^/(mailman[/]{0,1}){0,1}$ /mailman/listinfo [L,R]
Greg
On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 09:46 AM, Greg Westin wrote:
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At 14:46 18/01/2003, Greg Westin wrote:
What's wrong with:
RedirectMatch permanent ^/mailman(|/)$ /mailman/listinfoor, if you have mod_rewrite and the rewrite engine on:
RewriteRule ^/mailman(|/)$ /mailman/listinfo [R,L]or even better:
RewriteRule ^/mailman(|/)$ /mailman/listinfo [PT]The latter has the advantage, courtesy of the PT flag, of delivering the /mailman/listinfo page immediately instead of making the browser do a second request (each time it visits) to follow the redirection response produced by the initial request, if that request's URI path was /mailman or /mailman/
I don't know what the I or | or whatever that is does - I assume it
does the same thing as {0,1}. But the important difference between the
rule I use:
RewriteRule ^/(mailman[/]{0,1}){0,1}$ /mailman/listinfo [L,R]
and the ones you suggested is that mine also redirects requests for /
to /mailman/listinfo. You may or may not want that functionality, of
course. Again, I don't claim to be an expert in any of this stuff...
considering your comments, perhaps this would be the best for what I
want to do:
RewriteRule ^/(mailman(|/)){0,1}$ /mailman/listinfo [PT]
I don't know if you can use nested parentheses, and I don't know if the
PT flag is something I'd want, but whatever works...
Greg
On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 02:15 PM, Richard Barrett wrote:
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