RE: [Mailman-Users] Integrating Mailman 2.0.8 with Tomcat 4.0.1

Tue, 04 Jun 2002 10:32:44 -0700 

Friends.  Please excuse the proprietary shell script references to /root/bin/tomstart, 
/root/bin/tomstop, and /root/bin/newapp.  These are convenience scripts I use to 
start, stop and create new application file structures in Tomcat.  My apologies.
 
I'll make a more generic version of these instructions and try again.
 
Regards,
 
Mitch

        -----Original Message----- 
        From: Winkle, Mitchell (Mitch), MGSVC 
        Sent: Tue 06/04/2002 1:42 PM 
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        Subject: [Mailman-Users] Integrating Mailman 2.0.8 with Tomcat 4.0.1
        
        

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        <h4>Installation of Mailman</h4> 
        <strong>NOTE:</strong> These isntructions apply to Mailman version 2.0.8 and 
RedHat Linux version 7.0.  If you follow these instructions for installing Mailman and 
have installed Tomcat 4.0.1 in the /home directory, you may follow these instructions 
for other distributions as long as all dependencies for both Mailman and Tomcat 4.0.1 
have been met.

        <ol> 
        <li>Make a user by the name of <strong>mailman</strong> using linuxconf and 
make the home directory be<pre>/var/mailman</pre>

        <li>Configure the Mailman directory structure : <pre>cd /var/mailman 
        chown mailman.mailman /var/mailman 
        chmod a+rx,g+ws /var/mailman</pre> 
        <li>Download mailman from <a href="http://www.list.org <http://www.list.org"; 
<http://www.list.org> > http://www.list.org";>http://www.list.org</a>

        <li>Use command : <pre>tar xvzf mailman-2.x.x.tgz</pre> to unpack the 
distribution 
        <li><pre>cd mailman-2.x.x</pre> 
        <li>Read instructions in INSTALL file of distribution : <pre>more 
INSTALL</pre> 
        <li>Configure the distribution : <pre>./configure --prefx=/var/mailman 
--with-mail-gid=mail --with-cgi-gid=root</pre> 
        <li>Install Mailman : <pre>make install</pre> 
        <li>Set up the cron jobs : <pre>su - mailman 
        cd /var/mailman/cron 
        crontab crontab.in</pre> 
        <li>Create link in smrsh for sendmail to work : <pre>cd /etc/smrsh 
        ln -s /var/mailman/mail/wrapper wrapper</pre> 
        </ol> 
        <h4>Configuring Tomcat to work with Mailman</h4> 
        <ol> 
        <li><pre>cd /home/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1/conf</pre 
        <li><pre>pico server.xml</pre> 
        <li>Find the section commented out that defines the CGI servlet and uncomment 
it 
        <li>Find the section below that which defines the CGI servlet pattern to match 
and uncomment it 
        <li>Save server.xml 
        <li><pre>cd /home/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1/webapps</pre> 
        <li><pre>/root/bin/newapp mailman</pre> <strong>NOTE: This assumes that the 
newapp script is installed in /root/bin and the path is properly set.  If it is not 
available, copy the script from one of the other servers</strong>

        <li><pre>cd /home/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1/webapps/mailman/WEB-INF</pre> 
        <li><pre>ln -s /var/mailman/cgi-bin cgi</pre 
        <li><pre>cd /home/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1/webapps/ROOT</pre> 
        <li><pre>ln -s /var/mailman/archives/public pipermail</pre> 
        </ol> 
        <h4>Configuring Mailman to work with Tomcat 4.0.1</h4> 
        <p> 
        The standard scripts and HTML templates which come with the Mailman 
distribution will not work with Tomcat 4.0.1's CGI wrapper.  For some reason, 
METHOD=POST in the HTML forms that Mailman dynamically builds will break the CGI 
wrapper in Tomcat, so as a workaround you must laboriously go through all the files in 
the Mailman distribution which build HTML form templates and change 
<strong>METHOD=POST</strong> to <strong>METHOD=GET</strong>.

        To the best of my knowledge these files are : 
        <pre>/var/mailman/templates/admlogin.txt 
        /var/mailman/Mailman/HTMLFormatter.py 
        /var/mailman/Mailman/htmlformat.py 
        /var/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/private.py 
        </pre> 
        Find <strong>METHOD=POST</strong> in all of these files and change it to 
<strong>METHOD=GET</strong> and save the file. 
        <h4>Restart the Tomcat 4.0.1 server</h4> 
        <pre>/root/bin/tomstop</pre>Wait for all java processes to stop by monitoring 
<pre>ps ax|grep java</pre>and then start Tomcat with <pre>/root/bin/tomstart</pre>

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