Thanks, I checked everything you suggested, but I still get "not found on this server" unless I enter the IP address manually, and the links on the config pages still point to mail.bdanube.net. Maybe there are cache files somewhere that I should delete, or templates I should edit?
Thanks, Michael On Jul 7, 2005, at 5:46 PM, Dan Phillips wrote: > > On Jul 7, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Michael Gmail wrote: > >> I've got Mailman running (pre-installed) on Mac OS X Tiger, and list >> messages are being delivered, but I'd like to do some configuration >> that isn't available through the Server Admin interface. Mailman >> seems to think the configuration web pages are in the http:// >> mail.bdanube.net/mailman/ directory path, but I can't connect there. >> I have public DNS records for bdanube.net and www.bdanube.net, but >> for mail.bdanube.net I have only an MX record, not an A record. I can >> access the mailman pages by replacing mail.bdanube.net with the >> server's LAN IP address in the browser's address bar, but internal >> links on the pages are broken too (I can kinda-sorta get them to work >> by saving the pages and editing them to change the link href's), and >> my admin password is always rejected when I try to log into the >> config page. I'm hoping that's due to the domain-name problem and not >> still another unrelated glitch. >> >> So what do I do now? Do I have to reconfigure Apache, or set up a >> local DNS server, or request a public A record for mail.bdanube.net, >> or what? I've looked at Apple's Tiger Server documentation as well as >> the online Mailman documentation linked from it, but so far I'm >> coming up empty. >> > > > Take a look at /usr/share/mailman/Mailman/mm_cfg.py for the lines: > > DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'mail.bdanube.net' > DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'www.bdanube.net' > > If they're not there, add them > > In /etc/httpd/httpd.conf, check these lines: > > >> #### For Mac OS X Server: Uncomment this line to enable web-based >> #### configuration of mailman: >> ## >> Include /etc/httpd/httpd_mailman.conf >> >> > > Uncomment as instructed if needed. Then check /etc/httpd/ > httpd_mailman.conf for this: > > >> # Config file for linking the mailman mailing list manager to >> MacOSX Server Web Server. >> # >> # As noted in httpd.conf, you may uncomment an include directive >> in that file, which >> # points to this file, to enable access to mailman. >> # >> >> ScriptAlias /mailman/ "/usr/share/mailman/cgi-bin/" >> Alias /pipermail/ "/var/mailman/archives/public/" >> <Directory "/var/mailman/archives/public/"> >> Options FollowSymLinks MultiViews Indexes >> AllowOverride None >> Order allow,deny >> Allow from all >> </Directory> >> >> > > FWIW, I don't know why they separated it out into another file, > since the scriptalias directive can go directly in httpd.conf. Of > course Mailman and Apache will both need to be restarted for these > to take effect. > > Apple's GUI to Mailman is rather pathetic, IMHO. You're better off > using Mailman's native web interface. > > Dan > > > ================================ > Dan Phillips > Associate Professor of Horn, University of Memphis > site administrator: music.memphis.edu > > > -- Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely. ------------------------------------------------------ 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
