Re: [Mailman-Developers] Make web_page_url visible in the admin GUI?

2005-11-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 19:03 +, Max Bowsher wrote: OPTION TWO: Make links and form action URLs within the admin interface relative, so that an incorrect web_page_url does not render the admin interface inoperable. I think ultimately, it would be great if the urls could all be relative, but

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Make web_page_url visible in the admin GUI?

2005-11-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 13:16 -0800, JC Dill wrote: As I understand it, your issue is what URL is shown. My suggestion is that we make a change to the code that allows list administrators to change what URL is shown to list users. The new URL will also work for list administrators, but the

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Make web_page_url visible in the admin GUI?

2005-11-28 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Barry Warsaw wrote: On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 19:03 +, Max Bowsher wrote: OPTION TWO: Make links and form action URLs within the admin interface relative, so that an incorrect web_page_url does not render the admin interface inoperable. I

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Make web_page_url visible in the admin GUI?

2005-11-28 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: Max == Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Max My point in saying what I did was that 'the URL to the user Max webpage' and 'the URL for the admin webpage' are not Max independently settable entities.

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Make web_page_url visible in the admin GUI?

2005-11-27 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai
-On [20051127 00:23], Max Bowsher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Second incompatibility: You are talking about adding a feature to set the preferred URL. But this is what web_page_url already is!!! Read again, he is not talking about adding a preferred URL option, but rather explaining what the

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Make web_page_url visible in the admin GUI?

2005-11-27 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Max == Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Max My point in saying what I did was that 'the URL to the user Max webpage' and 'the URL for the admin webpage' are not Max independently settable entities. They are, in fact, Max identical, just one has things like 'listinfo' or

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Make web_page_url visible in the admin GUI?

2005-11-26 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
Max == Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Max Is there any reason not to add web_page_url to the Max configurable options in the admin GUI? Right below host_name Max in the general category would be a good place. Yes, please! -- School of Systems and Information Engineering

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Make web_page_url visible in the admin GUI?

2005-11-26 Thread John W. Baxter
On 11/26/05 1:25 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Max == Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Max Is there any reason not to add web_page_url to the Max configurable options in the admin GUI? Right below host_name Max in the general category would be a good

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Make web_page_url visible in the admin GUI?

2005-11-26 Thread Stephen J. Turnbull
John == John W Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Thought experiment: 1. Make a typo which cripples the URL John such that you can't reach the admin web page. I actually don't care what the admin URL(s) are. That's what bookmarks are for, and my list admins can learn to use them,

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Make web_page_url visible in the admin GUI?

2005-11-26 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John W. Baxter wrote: On 11/26/05 1:25 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Max == Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Max Is there any reason not to add web_page_url to the Max configurable options in the admin GUI? Right

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Make web_page_url visible in the admin GUI?

2005-11-26 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: John == John W Baxter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Thought experiment: 1. Make a typo which cripples the URL John such that you can't reach the admin web page. I actually don't care what the admin URL(s)

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Make web_page_url visible in the admin GUI?

2005-11-26 Thread JC Dill
John W. Baxter wrote: Max == Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Max Is there any reason not to add web_page_url to the Max configurable options in the admin GUI? Right below host_name Max in the general category would be a good place. Yes, there is a reason. It is the same

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Make web_page_url visible in the admin GUI?

2005-11-26 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 JC Dill wrote: John W. Baxter wrote: Max == Max Bowsher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Max Is there any reason not to add web_page_url to the Max configurable options in the admin GUI? Right below host_name Max in the general category would be

Re: [Mailman-Developers] Make web_page_url visible in the admin GUI?

2005-11-26 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 JC Dill wrote: Max Bowsher wrote: Mailman doesn't really have two distinct web interfaces. It has a single web interface, portions of which are restricted to administrators. That isn't important to the issue, is it? You said: As I read it,

[Mailman-Developers] Make web_page_url visible in the admin GUI?

2005-11-25 Thread Max Bowsher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've taken over responsibility for an old Mailman installation which used to be configured with incorrect vhost information. As a result, web_page_url is incorrect for many lists. I have found the info about using config_list to adjust web_page_url,