Mailman setup

[Jeffrey Goldberg]

On Apr 13, 2007, at 12:42 PM, David Southwell wrote:

> The path to my virtual webs is
> /usr2/virtualwebs/my.virtual.site.name
>
> In attempting to create the first list I received no advice email  
> from the
> list but did find the following errors in httpd-errors-log
>
> [Fri Apr 13 10:16:55 2007] [error] [client 192.168.15.1] File does not
> exist: /usr2/virtualwebs/vizion2000.net/usr2, referer:
> http://www.vizion2000.net/mailman/create
> [Fri Apr 13 10:16:55 2007] [error] [client 192.168.15.1] File does not
> exist: /usr2/virtualwebs/vizion2000.net/usr2, referer:
> http://www.vizion2000.net/mailman/create

Those errors are probably not related to why you received no mail.

> I then tried:
> [root at dns1 /usr/local/mailman]# fgrep -R usr2 ./*
> ./Mailman/mm_cfg.py:IMAGE_LOGOS = '/usr2/virtualwebs/icons/'
> Binary file ./Mailman/mm_cfg.pyc matches
> ./Mailman/mm_cfg.py~:IMAGE_LOGOS = '/usr2/virtualwebs/icons/'
> [root at dns1 /usr/local/mailman]#
>
> After some digging around I find that mailman is looking for the  
> icons in
> http://www.vizion2000.net/usr2/virtualwebs/icons/ rather than in
> /usr2/virtualwebs/icons
>
> My mm_cfg.py has the following entry line:
> IMAGE_LOGOS = '/usr2/virtualwebs/icons/'
> so it seems as though the path is being read as relative
> to /usr2/virtualwebs/vizion2000.net rather than as an absolute path.

Yes, that is what is described in the comments in Defaults.py before  
the IMAGE_LOGOS setting.

> How can I change this behaviour?

Why do you wish to change it?  Just leave it as the default.

Also recall that you should have something like

  Alias /icons "/usr/local/mailman/icons"

in the virtual host configuration for apache.

-j


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Jeffrey Goldberg                        http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/