[Mailman-Users] why can't people see my lists?

[Joshua S. Freeman]

Thanks James,

That was it (the long-ish answer)...


Thanks a million.

cheers,

J.

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, James Watson
wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 08:30:45PM -0500, Joshua S. Freeman wrote:
> > OK, then my question remains this:
> > 
> > WHY AREN'T MY LISTS SHOWING UP?... I've set the permission on the
> > privacy page for each of the 4 lists on our server, yet they're not
> > showing up when I run http://www.mysql.org/mailman/listinfo
> > 
> > They are meant to be advertised lists yet they're not showing up.
> 
> Short answer: set VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW=0 in mm_cfg.py.
> 
> Long answer:
> If you go to: http://mysql.org/mailman/listinfo you can see them.  The list
> hostname is set to "mysql.org" instead of "www.mysql.org".  Changing the list
> hostname should fix it.
> 
> Mailman includes some virtual hosting features that will limit
> the list of lists to those for the current virtual host.  It does
> this by matching the list hostname with the http hostname.  However,
> this is a case-sensitive match, so if you change the list hostname to
> www.mysql.org, then http://www.mysql.org/mailman/listinfo will work,
> but http://www.MySQL.org/mailman/listinfo will not. You can avoid this
> problem by setting VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW=0 in mm_cfg.py. This will cause
> Mailman to advertise all public lists, regardless of the http hostname.
> 
> -James
> 
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