[Mailman-Users] 500 errors with certain domains

[Mark Sapiro]

On 06/18/2014 06:34 AM, John Dragun wrote:
> I have been running mailman on a Freebsd server for about 10 years. I am
> now migrating to a bigger server running Centos.  The problems I have
> been having I have been able to work through with all the help posted in
> these lists and forums, but I am at a point where I am stuck.
> If i connect via my ip address: 216.xxx.xxx.xxx/mailman/listinfo, I get
> in, I see no lists even though I made a mailman list as public,


See the FAQ at <http://wiki.list.org/x/lYA9>.


> I can
> the got to the admin page, still do not see the list, but I can go to
> 216.xxx.xxx.xxx/mailman/admin/mailman and log in.  Once there if I go to
> post a message in the waiting for moderator, when I hit the save changes
> button, the url reverts to http://draguncomputers/mailman/admin/mailman
> and I get a 500 error. I have virtual hosts, and only one uses the list.


If you want the url to be 216.xxx.xxx.xxx/mailman/admin/mailman

run Mailman's

bin/withlist -l -r fix_url -u 216.xxx.xxx.xxx


It shouldn't be necessary to post Defaults.py as you should never change
it. All changes should be made by overrides in mm_cfg.py. See the FAQ at
<http://wiki.list.org/x/fIA9>.


> mm_cfg.py
> ###############################################
> # Here's where we get the distributed defaults.
> 
> from Defaults import *
> 
> ##################################################
> # Put YOUR site-specific settings below this line.
> #DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'http://%s/mailman/'
> #PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = '/pipermail'
> #PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = 'http://% (hostman)s/pipermail/%(listman)s'

If this was uncommented at Jun 17 21:47:39 2014, it explains the error
log entry below. It should be

PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = 'http://%(hostname)s/pipermail/%(listname)s'

This should be the Default value that's in Defaults.py.

The space between '%' and '(' will cause the "ValueError: unsupported
format character '(' (0x28) at index 9" exception. and the misspelled
names will also cause problems


> #DEFAULT_EMAILHOST = 'draguncomputers.com'
> 
> VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear
> add_virtualhost('www.draguncomputers.com, draguncomputers.com')
> add_virtualhost('www.askchip.com, askchip.com')


You may or may not want the above. You probably want

add_virtualhost('216.xxx.xxx.xxx', 'whatever.the.email.host.is')



> mailman

Actually, this one is Apache.
> error_log:
> [Wed Jun 18 09:16:03 2014] [error] [client 173.245.xxx.xxx] Premature
> end of script headers: admindb, referer:
> http://216.224.171.137/mailman/admindb/mailman
> [Wed Jun 18 09:16:04 2014] [error] [client 173.245.xxx.xxx] suexec
> policy violation: see suexec log for more details, referer:
> http://draguncomputers.com/mailman/admindb/mailman
> [Wed Jun 18 09:16:04 2014] [error] [client 173.245.xxx.xxx] Premature
> end of script headers: admindb, referer:
> http://draguncomputers.com/mailman/admindb/mailman


Are there any Mailman error log entries corresponding to the above?


> Apache:

And this is Mailman's error log and the errors herein are explained by
the invalid

PUBLIC_ARCHIVE_URL = 'http://% (hostman)s/pipermail/%(listman)s'


> Jun 17 21:47:39 2014 admin(10560):
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> admin(10560): [----- Mailman Version: 2.1.18-1 -----]
> admin(10560): [----- Traceback ------]
> admin(10560): Traceback (most recent call last):
> admin(10560):   File
> "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/scripts/driver", line 117, in run_main
> admin(10560):     main()
> admin(10560):   File
> "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 230, in
> main
> admin(10560):     show_results(mlist, doc, category, subcat, cgidata)
> admin(10560):   File
> "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/admin.py", line 452, in
> show_results
> admin(10560):     otherlinks.AddItem(Link(mlist.GetBaseArchiveURL(),
> admin(10560):   File
> "/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/Mailman/Archiver/Archiver.py", line
> 147, in GetBaseArchiveURL
> admin(10560):     'hostname': hostname
> admin(10560): ValueError: unsupported format character '(' (0x28) at
> index 9


Python info and second occurrence of same error snipped.


> I had a hell of a time with permissions etc just to get ANY page to come
> up without a 403 or 500 error.


And are those and your Apache errors resolved now?

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