----- Original Message ----- From: "TJ Snider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 10:35 PM Subject: [Mailman-Users] Problems installing Mailman... > Hi Folks, > > I've been trying for the last day and a bit trying to get Mailman installed, > with mixed results. > I'm a long term(16 yrs) developer mostly C/C++ & Java on Mac and Winedows, > but have some old BSD experience. I'm still coming up to speed with all the > sys admin bits of Linux, (I used to help admin an old BSD 4.2 box). I'm also > new to Python, but it looks pretty simple to pickup. > > I have a RH 6.2 system with a 2.4 kernel, and Exim as the mailer. Python is > 1.5.2. > > I'm running Apache 1.3.17 with a total of 3 virtual domain(one IP), and I'm > running my own DNS for all three such as(names not real); > > a.com > b.org > c.net > > with a.com being the 'host' domain. > > I've installed mailman, defaulting to /home/mailman and am able to send the > mail for the test mailing list, so the mail path works. However I note that > the configuration script picks up c.net as the domain name... despite the > hostname being a.com, so there's a chance that my DNS configuration isn't > quite what mailman wants. > > I am unable to get to www.a.com/mailman/, and I've pretty scrupulously > followed the install instructions. I don't understand why that shouldn't be possible. (1) where /mailman/ lives under is pretty much defined by your httpd setup. make sure you have a directory-directive that makes /home/mailman/cgi-bin accessible. In the VirtualHost directive for www.a.com, add a ScriptAlias-directive such as: ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/home/mailman/cgi-bin/" (2) take a look at /home/mailman/Mailman/mm_py.cfg. make sure that "default host name" is set to "a.com" and "default url" is set to http://www.a.com/mailman/ DO NOT FORGET THE TRAILING SLASH for "default url". If you have any problems, look at your webserver logs, they shall help you.. as far as I can tell, if you follow these instructions, there shouldn't be any problems.. John > > I've tried several different configuration options but to little avail. > > Does this scenario twig anyones memory, or does anyone have any suggestions > for what to try next? > > Thanks hopefully in advance, > > TJ > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
