Cannot use mailman moderation over HTTPS, fix_url ineffective, mm_cfg.py does not apply
Hello, I am responsible for a server with a number of lists on a server that has Plesk installed (don't leave just yet!).
Mailman administrative interface loads over HTTPS, and every page in the administration works as expected -- with the exception of message moderation, which stubbornly keeps POSTing to plain HTTP.
Things checked:
The web server configuration seems OK, and properly redirects to HTTPS.
The current mm_cfg.py ( with comments omitted ) is the following:
from Defaults import * import pwd, grp
MAILMAN_UID = pwd.getpwnam('mailman')[2] MAILMAN_GID = grp.getgrnam('mailman')[2]
from socket import * try: fqdn = getfqdn() except: fqdn = 'mm_cfg_has_unknown_host_domains'
DEFAULT_URL_HOST = fqdn DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http*s*://%s/mailman/' DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = fqdn
add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)
For old lists, using ./withlist -l -r fix_url mylistname -u lists.mydomain.com does NOT change to form action to HTTPS, and new lists still have HTTP as an action.
I have copied over fix_url.py to fix_url2.py which hardcodes web_page_url = 'https://lists.mydomain.com/mailman/'
And apply it to all lists of each domain after creation to fix this, but it really seems that it should not be this way. Is there something I am missing as far as MailMan is concerned?
Thank you in advance for your valuable assistance! Nick.
On 12/4/18 4:35 AM, Nikolaos Andriopoulos wrote:
Redirects of POST lose the POST data.
This is correct, but the preceding stuff seems to be from some downstream package which may explain why DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN is apparently not effective.
which indicates that your mm_cfg.py setting for DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN is not effective, possibly because the file you are editing is not the one Mailman is using.
Mailman is spelled Mailman.
fix_url creates web_page_url from DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN. If the created web_page_url is not https, either the mm_cfg it imports is not the one you edited or the setting you edit is being overridden somehow.
There should be a Mailman/ directory containing Defaults.py, mm_cfg.py and many other Mailman modules. Is this mm_cfg.py a file or a symlink? If it is a file, is it the one you are editing? If it is a symlink, is its target the file that you are editing.
Also, as far as new lists are concerned, you need to restart Mailman after editing mm_cfg.py, but this shouldn't affect fix_url.
You could try running './withlist -i' and in the interactive session
from Mailman import mm_cfg mm_cfg.DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN
This should print
If it doesn't, you need to figure out why it isn't importing from the mm_cfg.py that you edited.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 12/4/18 4:35 AM, Nikolaos Andriopoulos wrote:
Redirects of POST lose the POST data.
This is correct, but the preceding stuff seems to be from some downstream package which may explain why DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN is apparently not effective.
which indicates that your mm_cfg.py setting for DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN is not effective, possibly because the file you are editing is not the one Mailman is using.
Mailman is spelled Mailman.
fix_url creates web_page_url from DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN. If the created web_page_url is not https, either the mm_cfg it imports is not the one you edited or the setting you edit is being overridden somehow.
There should be a Mailman/ directory containing Defaults.py, mm_cfg.py and many other Mailman modules. Is this mm_cfg.py a file or a symlink? If it is a file, is it the one you are editing? If it is a symlink, is its target the file that you are editing.
Also, as far as new lists are concerned, you need to restart Mailman after editing mm_cfg.py, but this shouldn't affect fix_url.
You could try running './withlist -i' and in the interactive session
from Mailman import mm_cfg mm_cfg.DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN
This should print
If it doesn't, you need to figure out why it isn't importing from the mm_cfg.py that you edited.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
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