Cannot save admin options -- here's my fix
hi, I've been struggling with the problem that others have experienced where if you save some Admin options, the changes don't take and you're rerouted to the password page, over and over again.
I debugged this using the 'lynx' web browser. Lynx would say something like "Accept invalid cookie /cgi-bin/mailman as prefix for /mailman/listinfo?' when I went to the Mailman admin page.
It occured to me that, for whatever reason, Mailman was putting out cookies in a fixed format "/cgi-bin/mailman" and that I had to make sure my Apache setup conformed to what Mailman wanted.
So I changed ScriptAlias in /etc/apache/httpd.conf to read:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/
/usr/lib/mailman is where I have Mailman installed. After that change, I tested it once more with Lynx and it worked. Then it started working under Netscape as well.
So now the cookies that get put out by Mailman match up to the URLs that the browsers are seeing.
hope that helps someone, david
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Yesterday at 17:21 david sims said:
It occured to me that, for whatever reason, Mailman was putting out cookies in a fixed format "/cgi-bin/mailman" and that I had to make sure my Apache setup conformed to what Mailman wanted.
I rearanged the ScriptAlies' and default_url's for our Beta6 install, and it now works fine.
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