Need help with bug after changing archives from public to private
Hello,
Please, can someone help me? I have the root access to the VPS, but am not familiar with SSH commands. The hosting company has failed to help saying that they do not help with 3rd part software.
This was the last email I had sent to the hosting company:
Let's see if I can explain in details:
http://lists.aisnet.org/mailman/admin/aisworld_lists.aisnet.org (Broken)
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I have a mailing list that was migrated to HostV from other hosting company. The list was set to archive publicly. However, I noticed that when clicked on "Go to Archives", the archives were not current. So in the archive URL, I changed the pipermail to private and the archives showed just fine. That is why I tried to change the option from public to private for the aisworld list and it broke with the bug in Mailman message.
Finally, this morning, HostV managed to fix it, but here are the new problems:
Looks like they had backed up to initial migration, where allmy pending moderator requests are lost.
The "Go to archives" still do not show current and now changingthe url from pipermail to private brings a blank page.
I really hope someone can help me.
Thank You!
Mahesh
Mahesh Rathi wrote:
I have a mailing list that was migrated to HostV from other hosting company. The list was set to archive publicly. However, I noticed that when clicked on "Go to Archives", the archives were not current. So in the archive URL, I changed the pipermail to private and the archives showed just fine. That is why I tried to change the option from public to private for the aisworld list and it broke with the bug in Mailman message.
First of all, all the archives, both public and private, are in the archives/private/ tree. Public archives also have symlinks in the archives/public/ tree. Thus the pipermail alias should always point to the archives/public/ directory. By pointing it to archives/private, you have made all archives publicly accessible via the pipermail URL regardless of list setting.
You should make the pipermail alias point to archives/public/ and if necessary, fix permissions on that directory and remove any structure other than symlinks that you "migrated".
Finally, this morning, HostV managed to fix it, but here are the new problems:
Looks like they had backed up to initial migration, where all
I'm sorry, but if your moderator request data is lost, it's lost. You could try asking them to restore only the lists/LISTNAME/ directory with the most recen content they have, but I would advise you to bite the bullet and accept what you have, because it sounds like the more you have them do, the more they screw it up.
The "Go to archives" still do not show current and now changing
Fix your pipermail alias to point to archives/public/
Then make sure that archives/public/aisworld_lists.aisnet.org is a symlink to archives/private/aisworld_lists.aisnet.org and not a directory.
Then look at archives/private/aisworld_lists.aisnet.org/. If the archives are not there, Maybe the hosting service lost them.
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