I'm going to be debugging a Mailman install that has gone bad without much previous "root" experience or Mailman except as a list owner. I have worked with Apache some, but not enough to entirely understand the whole picture. Here are the symptoms - sorry that I don't have the actual files to show.
The lists were running on another server, then the service provider upgraded and moved to a new server. The lists quit parsing the virtual domains at that time, but the list control panel was useable enough to be able to insert the IP address of the hosting server under the default URL and then all of the web interface and mail worked fine as it inserted the IP address appropriately. Not too long after that Mailman was updated and then the IP "fix" went away. Now, the web interface resolves to the virtual host when anything is "clicked". I can get to the admin interface for the list I am working with, but whenever I try to make changes, it defaults back to the virtual host - giving me a "file not found" error. I've tried to "hack" it by taking apart the source to get the appropriate CGI string - but it has not happened. I can't change the named host to the IP address because when I click the box it tries to send it through the virtual domain. I did go and try to use a redirect to solve the addressing, but Mailman is run prior to address resolution, so this doesn't work either and the redirect is useless. My goals are the following: 1) Temp solution - locate and change the "host" to the IP address so that links will work correctly (not the best solution) 2) Check all of the alias and virtual host entries and see what need to be changed and make the changes and try to solve it this way. Either solution, here is my problem. What changes need to have a recompile before going into affect, what changes need a program restart, which changes are simply to edit a configuration file where it will be parsed and used automatically, and which changes don't go into effect without a server restart . Here are some of the files that I have researched that I need to check on - can you help me with which will go into effect immediately, which are needing recompile, which need a program restart (and which program) and which need a server restart. As it is a large production server and I'm not where I can actually do the restart, I need to coordinate server restarts with the server owner. Files to configure: httpd.conf /usr/local/etc/exim/configure Mailman/mm_cfg.py Do these changes need to be done each time a virtual domain is added to the server? Is there a variable to make this happen automatically (come to think about it - I haven't debugged to see if this might already be working fine by adding a new domain) Also, do I need to run this program for every existing list on the server? If so, is there a way to batch this? ./bin/withlist -l -r fix_url <listname> ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ This message was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org
