[Mailman-Developers] alternate root for mailman - part 2

[Marisa Riviere]

It seems that I find the answer to the first part of my question.
I should include the line: 
DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mail_man/'
in mm_cfg.py as well.  Please tell me if I need some thing else.

I still need to know how to convert existing lists from one
version to other (2.0.8 to 2.1.2) as well as from one system
to other.  How do I change the host system in each list's
configuration?

Thanks again.

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> From marisa Tue Jun 10 12:23:54 2003
> Subject: alternate root for mailman
> To: mailman-developers at python.org
> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:23:54 -0500 (CDT)
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> 
> I am updating mailman to a new version but until I can test
> all the changes I like to run two versions of the program.
> I am working in a SuSE Linux 8.0 system.
> 
> For the old versions I used the default settings and defined:
> 
> ScriptAlias     /mailman/       /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/
> Alias           /pipermail/     /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
> 
> For the new version (2.1.2) I am using user "mail_man" and:
> 
> 1)  a "configure" command such as:
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mail_man --with-var-prefix=/var/mail_man
> --with-username=mail_man --with-groupname=mail_man --with-mail-gid=65533
> --with-cgi-gid=65534
> 
> 2) a definition of where the Papermail directory will be in
> ../Mailman/mm_cfg.py  (I set this before "configure".)
>    
> PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = 'http://%(hostname)s/piper_mail/%(listname)s'
> 
> and
> 
> 3) an addition to the  Apache httpd configuration for the new
> mail_man:
> 
> ScriptAlias     /mailman/       /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/  
> Alias           /pipermail/     /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
> 
> <Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/>
>         Options +FollowSymLinks
> </Directory>
> 
> ScriptAlias     /mail_man/       /usr/local/mail_man/cgi-bin/
> Alias           /piper_mail/     /var/mail_man/archives/public/
> 
> <Directory /var/mail_man/archives/>
>         Options +FollowSymLinks
> </Directory>
> 
> 
> Things work "up to a certain point"... I can create new lists and the
> lists are stored in my new paper_mail root OK.  I also can locate the
> lists management entry with the web page entry:
> http://stat.umn.edu/mail_man/admin.
> 
> The problem is that when I want to access any one of the new lists
> that I created to be managed by the new version of the program I can not
> access the information on those lists.
> 
> If I look at the information on the configuration of the list
> by using the unix "strings" command on the binary I see that that 
> list points to a web page in the old root:
> 
> > strings /var/mail_man/lists/test212b/config.pck
> .
> .
> web_page_urlqNU$http://muskrat.stat.umn.edu/mailman/qOU
> 
> .
> .
> 
> I am so confuse that it is hard to post a question!  But some how I 
> wander if
> 
> 1) I am missing some information for "configure"
> 
> or 
>  
> 2) Am I right to assume the the problem may be on the "admin" binary
> that has enough information about the new root (paper_mail) to place the
> list there but it is not capable of placing that information in the
> configuration of the list?
> 
> And finally, two different question that I will need to deal with as well
> are:
> 
> How can I eliminate references to "muskrat.stat.umn.edu" and use
> only "stat.umn.edu"? Muskrat is an alias for our system but we may
> like to change it to another piece of hardware sometime.  I am not  
> telling the name "muskrat" to the configuration files but it seems to   
> pick it somewhere.
> 
> How do I convert the old lists two the new version of mailman?
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 

-- 
Marisa Riviere
U of M - Statistics
marisa at stat.umn.edu
612-624-5859

"Aun es tarde, si, pero ya vamos" - N. R.