[Mailman-Users] URL incorrect in web interface

[Mark Sapiro]

Allen Walker wrote:

>  I am running mailman on one machine which hosts several different 
>virtual hosts. However what I configured as the "mailman" virtual host 
>is "lists.myhost.com". Everything works fine (mail delivery, web site 
>url management) except for one thing: in the web admin url, it's 
>rewriting the links to "myhost.com/..." instead of "lists.myhost.com". 
>This is causing HTTP posts when doing some admin changes to fail as it's 
>hitting the "myhost.com" host instead of "lists.myhost.com".
>
>in my mm_cfg.py:
>
># The name of the list Mailman uses to send password reminders
># and similar. Don't change if you want mailman-owner to be
># a valid local part.
>MAILMAN_SITE_LIST = 'mailman'
>
>#-------------------------------------------------------------
># If you change these, you have to configure your http server
># accordingly (Alias and ScriptAlias directives in most httpds)
>#DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/cgi-bin/mailman/'
>DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/'
>PRIVATE_ARCHIVE_URL = '/cgi-bin/mailman/private'
>IMAGE_LOGOS         = '/images/mailman/'
>
>#-------------------------------------------------------------
># Default domain for email addresses of newly created MLs
>DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'myhost.com'
>#-------------------------------------------------------------
># Default host for web interface of newly created MLs
>DEFAULT_URL_HOST   = 'lists.myhost.com'
>#-------------------------------------------------------------
># Required when setting any of its arguments.
>add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)


The above is correct. Run Mailman's

  bin/withlist -l -a -r fix_url

to fix your existing lists. See the FAQ at
<http://wiki.list.org/x/mIA9>.


>mailman virtual host file
>
>
><VirtualHost *:80>
>ServerName lists.myhost.com
>DocumentRoot /var/www/lists
>ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/lists-error.log
>CustomLog /var/log/apache2/lists-access.log combined
>
><Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/>
>     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
>     AllowOverride None
></Directory>
>
>Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/
>Alias /images/mailman/ /usr/share/images/mailman/
>ScriptAlias /admin /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/admin
>ScriptAlias /admindb /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/admindb
>ScriptAlias /confirm /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/confirm
>ScriptAlias /create /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/create
>ScriptAlias /edithtml /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/edithtml
>ScriptAlias /listinfo /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo
>ScriptAlias /options /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/options
>ScriptAlias /private /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/private
>ScriptAlias /rmlist /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/rmlist
>ScriptAlias /roster /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/roster
>ScriptAlias /subscribe /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/subscribe
>ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman/
></VirtualHost>

-- 
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan