[Mailman-Users] Web interface saves no settings or info!

[Ted M Harapat]

Thats a great idea.

Well, the linux system is set to think that it is the list server and virtual 
website hostname (set via the /etc/hosts file) so I pulled up lynx to the 
localhost virtual domain and it pulled up just fine and I authenticated and went 
to the page for adding/removing users and the same thing happened. I told lynx 
to Always accept cookies so I know it's working. 

I'm stumped. I don't see where to go with this. I've read many past archives but 
am finding nothing related to this exact problem.

-ted

Quoting Jon Carnes <jonc at haht.com>:

> Try deleting the old cookie (or delete them all!!!)  But, yes the
> virtual
> hosting could do you in.  Is the web server configured to "think" it is
> the
> domain name you are using (to browse to it)?  What happens when you
> access
> the server locally using something like Lynx (which is a really nice way
> to
> troubleshoot the problem as it tells you everything it's doing)?
> 
> Jon Carnes
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ted M Harapat" <ted-mailman at mob.net>
> To: "Jon Carnes" <jonc at haht.com>; <mailman-users at python.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 4:17 PM
> Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface saves no settings or info!
> 
> 
> > Actually, I am using IE 6.x for this.
> >
> > After reading this, I went ahead and tried this in Netscape 4.79 but
> the
> same
> > thing happened.
> >
> > I have only one more quirky thing with my setup, I should add. The
> hostname
> > isn't really in DNS as I'm calling it. Because this is a brand new
> system
> thats
> > about to take over an old non-Mailman list server, I simply set up
> my
> local
> > hosts file to reflect the new IP so only I could access it. Oh, and
> this
> is also
> > a virtual domain/website on the new linux system, which is why I had
> to do
> that
> > host-file trick so the host-headers would make it come up.
> >
> > Could either of those two things matter?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -ted
> >
> > Quoting Jon Carnes <jonc at haht.com>:
> >
> > > This is definitely a Frequently Asked Question...  Undoubtedly you
> are
> > > using
> > > Konqueror as your web browser.  Konqueror cannot handle the new
> cookie
> > > layout (in version 2.0.8).  Since it mis-reads the cookie, the
> > > authentication it sends when you Post is incorrect.  Thus none of
> your
> > > changes are accepted.
> > >
> > > Use Netscape and your problems will be gone.  Newer versions of IE
> have
> > > the
> > > same problem, but the work around for IE is to set the web site
> with
> > > your
> > > Mailman install to "Trusted".  I have no idea why that works...
> except
> > > maybe
> > > it reads in the cookie without filtering it for bad things.
> > >
> > > Jon Carnes
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Ted M Harapat" <ted-mailman at mob.net>
> > > To: <mailman-users at python.org>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 3:40 PM
> > > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Web interfase saves no settings or info!
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi. I've setup mailman a couple other time in the past year and
> it
> > > worked
> > > near
> > > > flawlessly except for a few tiny things that were worked out.
> I've
> > > installed
> > > > 2.0.8 on a new (Mandrake Linux) system just yesterday.
> > > >
> > > > It all installed fine as always, and I made lists and sent some
> mails
> > > to
> > > them.
> > > > So it appeared to work. So I went to the web interface to start
> to
> > > configure
> > > > them and add the users to the lists. Here's where the problem
> started.
> > > I
> > > put in
> > > > all the info and hit "Submit Your Changes" and it went to that
> next
> > > page
> > > as
> > > > normal but none of my changes were accepted. So I tried
> non-useradd
> > > features and
> > > > the same thing happened... nothing was saving! I've checked
> > > permissions to
> > > make
> > > > sure the mailman group had access to all the files in his home
> > > directory.
> > > I even
> > > > decided to start from scratch and completely reinstall but that
> > > produced
> > > the
> > > > same results. I can't imagine that there is something so
> drastically
> > > different
> > > > from my old installs (of 2.0.6) compared to now that I can't
> figure
> > > it
> > > out. Can
> > > > anyone make any suggestions?
> > > >
> > > > I have gone through all of the web & mailman logs and they are
> > > reporting
> > > no
> > > > errors related to the mailman account or directories or
> permissions.
> > > It
> > > all
> > > > appears perfectly correct.
> > > >
> > > > Please advise.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -ted
> > > >
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