web interface permissions ?
Hi,
On a newly installed mailman setup, the "Submit All Data" button has no effect in the page "Tend to pending moderator requests". It doesn't matter if I select 'Accept' 'Reject' or 'Discard', the effect is the same - nothing.
On other admin pages I can do anything I want - add users, change defaults, etc, etc...
I'm wondering if this is a permissions issue?
I've checked /var/log/apache/* and /var/log/mailman/* plus the usual syslog files for errors, and I can't see anything obviously wrong.
This is pretty much a standard debian install with two lists: one 'mailman' list and another.
I'm using mailman with Exim and had to make some small changes as suggested in the docs to get it to work, and the SMTP side of it seems to be perfectly fine - I just can't do things like discarding messages from non-members.
dpkg -l mailman gives me this:
ii mailman 1:2.1.12-3 Powerful, web-based mailing list manager
Running "check_perms" gives me lots of permissions errors, but it was like that before I touched any of the config files, so I'm wondering if anyone else has had to fix this problem to get the mailman deb to work properly.
Many thanks, Thomas
Thomas Andrews wrote:
Possibly, but not too likely.
You should run 'check_perms -f' as root until the problems are fixed, but there is one caveat. I think the Debian package installs a number of symlinks and check_perms doesn't do well with symlinks. It checks the ownership and mode of the symlink itself and finds a problem. It then tries to fix the problem, but this fixes the target, not the symlink. So, it will continue to report problems with the permissions of the symlink even though there are really no problems.
What happens when you click the "Submit All Data" button? does it reload the same page or what?
If you look at the page source, what is the action url in the form tag? Is it correct? Is it something that the web server redirects? Is it the same as that on the admin pages except for 'admindb' instead of 'admin'?
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:21:27AM -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote:
It does. I keep meaning to write a patch to fix that, as it annoys me quite a lot.
The symlinks are part of making the package adhere to Debian Policy, istr.
One of the PPA packagers is onlist (although maybe the dev list), ISTR.
-- ``What the bloody hell is the point of 24-hour rolling news if it doesn't carry terrifying-lizard-related news?'' (Anthony Wells, on learning from the web that `a giant lizard is terrorising Beirut')
Mark Sapiro wrote:
What happens when you click the "Submit All Data" button? does it reload the same page or what?
Yes, it was
This gave me the solution. The action url was referring to http://... but I had apache configured to redirect http to https using
Redirect 301 / https://blaMailman of course didn't know this so it didn't use https://
First I fixed it by turning off the Redirect, and then I re-enabled Redirect and changed mm_cfg.py's setting of DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN. I had to run this command for it to take effect:
/usr/lib/mailman/bin/withlist -l -r fix_urlIt seems to be working fine now.
Thanks very much for the help!
-Thomas
Thomas Andrews wrote:
Possibly, but not too likely.
You should run 'check_perms -f' as root until the problems are fixed, but there is one caveat. I think the Debian package installs a number of symlinks and check_perms doesn't do well with symlinks. It checks the ownership and mode of the symlink itself and finds a problem. It then tries to fix the problem, but this fixes the target, not the symlink. So, it will continue to report problems with the permissions of the symlink even though there are really no problems.
What happens when you click the "Submit All Data" button? does it reload the same page or what?
If you look at the page source, what is the action url in the form tag? Is it correct? Is it something that the web server redirects? Is it the same as that on the admin pages except for 'admindb' instead of 'admin'?
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:21:27AM -0800, Mark Sapiro wrote:
It does. I keep meaning to write a patch to fix that, as it annoys me quite a lot.
The symlinks are part of making the package adhere to Debian Policy, istr.
One of the PPA packagers is onlist (although maybe the dev list), ISTR.
-- ``What the bloody hell is the point of 24-hour rolling news if it doesn't carry terrifying-lizard-related news?'' (Anthony Wells, on learning from the web that `a giant lizard is terrorising Beirut')
Mark Sapiro wrote:
What happens when you click the "Submit All Data" button? does it reload the same page or what?
Yes, it was
This gave me the solution. The action url was referring to http://... but I had apache configured to redirect http to https using
Redirect 301 / https://blaMailman of course didn't know this so it didn't use https://
First I fixed it by turning off the Redirect, and then I re-enabled Redirect and changed mm_cfg.py's setting of DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN. I had to run this command for it to take effect:
/usr/lib/mailman/bin/withlist -l -r fix_urlIt seems to be working fine now.
Thanks very much for the help!
-Thomas
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