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

[Jon Carnes]

Have you checked the rights of the install?  Could the config.db of your
test list be read only?  That should spark errors in the ~mailman/logs/...
Also are there any errors in the apache logs?

Are you using NFS to mount any of the install?
----- 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 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface saves no settings or info!


> 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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