On Friday 11 January 2002 19:22, you wrote: > Hi Jijo, > > happy that mailman is working, i can see the page in my lists.abc.com but > the problem is abc.com now points to lists.abc.com also. Even though > lists.abc.com and abc.com has different ip address. abc.com is not > virtually hosted > > so i dont need to create a virtualhost entry for it in my httpd.conf. > Desperately, i removed the index.html you recommend in my mailman > directory and even remove the virtualhost entry for lists.abc.com in my > httpd.conf., restart the services. but nothing happened, > it still points me to my /mailman/listinfo page.
if lists.abc.com and abc.com do not have the same ip address, and they both point to the same site, then it may be a dns issue? > Federico Sevilla III wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 at 15:04, Lito A. Lampitoc wrote: > > > Tried your suggestion, and it WORKED! > > > > Over lunch I was also thinking about the new MailMan setup and about how > > I can improve security. I thought of one. Instead of pointing > > DocumentRoot to /var/lib/mailman, I created a directory > > /var/lib/mailman/html (or anywhere, actually) where I put the index.html > > file the code of which I recommended in my earlier reply. Then I set this > > as DocumentRoot. This way a person with proper MailMan know-how cannot > > view things like your mm_cfg.py by simply going to > > <http://lists.abc.com/Mailman/mm_cfg.py>. The ScriptAlias definition that > > redirects /mailman to /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mailman makes everything work as > > it should, no matter what your DocumentRoot is. I also have Alias > > definitions for /pipermail and /images. :) ... another way to skin that cat: with apache, you can just create an .htaccess file in the directories where you want to store those files which shouldn't be accessed by browsers: <Options -Indexes <Files ~ "*.py"> Order allow,deny Deny from all </Files> hth, -eric -- .--. Enrique D. Rosel II ( () ) Q Linux Solutions, Inc. `--\\ A Philippine Open Source Solutions Co. http://www.q-linux.com/ _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
