[Mailman-Users] Inital mailman list

[Mark Sapiro]

Tony Molloy wrote:
>
>I installed and configured Mailman. Then according to the install guide 
>I created the initial mailman list using:
>
>    ./bin/newlist mailman
>
>Then I started the daemon and checked it was running.
>
>I'm trying to subscribe myself to the inital mailman list, as it says in 
>the install guide, but when I click on the list either on the "mailing 
>lists" page or the "list admin overview" page nothing happens.

The problem is the recommended rewrite rule for Apache is too agressive.

You probably have something like

RedirectMatch /mailman[/]*$ http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo

or something equivalent if your web server is not Apache.

The pattern should be anchored. I.e.

RedirectMatch /^mailman[/]*$ http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo

The workaround before you change your Apache config is to append
something to the URL you use or modify it in some other way that the
cgi script ignores. E.g. instead of trying to go to

http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo/mailman

go to

http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo/mailman/x

or to

http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo/Mailman

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