[Mailman-Developers] change in admin.py for Solaris 2.5.1 and Netscape Fasttrack 2.1 Server

Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:42:02 +0100 (MET)

Hello, 

while trying to run mailman-1.0b9 on Solaris 2.5.1 together with a 
Netscape Fasttrack Server 2.1  

I had to make the following change in  $prefix/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py: 

I changed  line 129 from 
"path"    : os.environ.get("REQUEST_URI", defaulturi),
to 

"path"    : '/' + os.environ.get("REQUEST_URI", defaulturi),

The result is that in the Web Page for the Administrative Authentication
where you enter the password of the list administrator, 

the HTML code now reads: 

</head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <FORM METHOD=POST
ACTION="/mailman/admin/mailmantest">
instead of 
</head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <FORM METHOD=POST
ACTION="mailman/admin/mailmantest">

Obviously the Fasttrack Server must be told that this is an absolute path
otherwise  the following URL will be set to something like
http://server/mailman/admin/mailman/admin/mailmantest
which can't be treated correctly. 

May be it's not the best solution but now it works.

werner frank
wfrank@syskonnect.de