Nice hack....
I indeed like this better. In that time I was able to switch things
over and everything works great!
On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 12:20, Bob Weissman wrote:
> At 09:55 AM 5/21/02, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> >Terry Davis wrote:
> >> Thank you for your reply. Where can I read up on how to 'recompile' for
> >> that directory? What config files much I change, etc.
> >
> > When that's done, recompile, and reinstall. Do this for each individual vhost.
>
> You don't need to do this. One installation of Mailman is sufficient for multiple
>vhosts. I have this running just fine on my site. You have to be willing to patch
>Mailman/Cgi/admin.py, but this is much cleaner than having multiple copies of Mailman.
>
> 1. Create your virtual hosts, if you haven't already. Make sure your vhosts are
>pointing to Mailman for cgi, icons, and pipermail. For Apache, this is (depending on
>where ~mailman lives):
>
> ScriptAlias /mailman /usr/home/mailman/cgi-bin
> <Directory "/usr/home/mailman/cgi-bin">
> AllowOverride None
> Options None
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> </Directory>
> Alias /icons /usr/home/mailman/icons
> Alias /pipermail /usr/home/mailman/archives/private
>
> This goes inside your <VirtualHost> sections of vhosts.conf for each vhost.
>
> 2. In your Mailman/mm_config.py file, make sure that VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW is set to
>1. (I use 2, which is nonstandard, to get an exact vhost match rather than the
>standard substring match. See patch below. If you have vhost names which are
>substrings of each other, you will need to use 2 and you will also need to change
>listinfo.py similarly to admin.py.)
>
> 3. Apply the patch below to admin.py. This copies some vhost-discrimination code
>from listinfo.py to admin.py. It works for 2.0.9 and above (I haven't tried it on
>older versions.)
>
> 4. For each list, change the web_page_url to point to the virtual host. This is the
>bottom-most parameter on the main admin page for each list. You may need to wait some
>time for the DNS records of the new vhosts to propagate before people can access the
>pages.
>
> - Bob
>
> Patch follows
>
> *** admin.py.ORIG Thu May 9 12:24:58 2002
> --- admin.py Thu May 9 12:32:06 2002
> ***************
> *** 25,30 ****
> --- 25,31 ----
> import types
> import rfc822
> import signal
> + from urlparse import urlparse
>
> from Mailman import Utils
> from Mailman import MailList
> ***************
> *** 200,205 ****
> --- 201,229 ----
> for n in names:
> l = MailList.MailList(n, lock=0)
> if l.advertised:
> + # Following cloned from listinfo.py - BW 5/9/02
> + # XXX We need a portable way to determine the host by which we are being
> + # visited! An absolute URL would do...
> + http_host = os.environ.get('HTTP_HOST', os.environ.get('SERVER_NAME'))
> + port = os.environ.get('SERVER_PORT')
> + # strip off the port if there is one
> + if port and http_host[-len(port)-1:] == ':'+port:
> + http_host = http_host[:-len(port)-1]
> + if mm_cfg.VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW:
> + if mm_cfg.VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW == 2: # Want an exact match
> + # extract the host part of the url
> + host_part = urlparse(l.web_page_url)[1]
> + # remove the port, if any
> + host_part = string.split(host_part, ":")[0]
> + if http_host and host_part != http_host:
> + # List is for different vhost - skip it.
> + continue
> + else: # Want a simple containment match
> + if http_host and \
> + string.find(http_host, l.web_page_url) == -1 and \
> + string.find(l.web_page_url, http_host) == -1:
> + # List is for different identity of this host - skip it.
> + continue
> advertised.append(l)
>
> if error:
--
Terry Davis
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