[Mailman-Users] Problems installing Mailman...

[John]

----- Original Message -----
From: "TJ Snider" <timsn at home.com>
To: <mailman-users at python.org>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 10:35 PM
Subject: [Mailman-Users] Problems installing Mailman...


> Hi Folks,
>
> I've been trying for the last day and a bit trying to get Mailman
installed,
> with mixed results.
> I'm a long term(16 yrs) developer mostly C/C++ & Java on Mac and Winedows,
> but have some old BSD experience. I'm still coming up to speed with all
the
> sys admin bits of Linux, (I used to help admin an old BSD 4.2 box). I'm
also
> new to Python, but it looks pretty simple to pickup.
>
> I have a RH 6.2 system with a 2.4 kernel, and Exim as the mailer. Python
is
> 1.5.2.
>
> I'm running Apache 1.3.17 with a total of 3 virtual domain(one IP), and
I'm
> running my own DNS for all three such as(names not real);
>
> a.com
> b.org
> c.net
>
> with a.com being the 'host' domain.
>
> I've installed mailman, defaulting to /home/mailman and am able to send
the
> mail for the test mailing list, so the mail path works. However I note
that
> the configuration script picks up c.net as the domain name... despite the
> hostname being a.com, so there's a chance that my DNS configuration isn't
> quite what mailman wants.
>
> I am unable to get to www.a.com/mailman/, and I've pretty scrupulously
> followed the install instructions.
I don't understand why that shouldn't be possible.
(1) where /mailman/ lives under is pretty much defined by your httpd setup.
make sure you have a directory-directive that makes /home/mailman/cgi-bin
accessible.
In the VirtualHost directive for www.a.com, add a ScriptAlias-directive such
as:
ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/home/mailman/cgi-bin/"

(2) take a look at /home/mailman/Mailman/mm_py.cfg.
make sure that "default host name" is set to "a.com" and "default url" is
set to
http://www.a.com/mailman/

DO NOT FORGET THE TRAILING SLASH for "default url".

If you have any problems, look at your webserver logs, they shall help you..
as far as I can tell, if you follow these instructions, there shouldn't be
any problems..



John


>
> I've tried several different configuration options but to little avail.
>
> Does this scenario twig anyones memory, or does anyone have any
suggestions
> for what to try next?
>
> Thanks hopefully in advance,
>
> TJ
>
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