Have you checked the rights of the install? Could the config.db of your test list be read only? That should spark errors in the ~mailman/logs/... Also are there any errors in the apache logs?
Are you using NFS to mount any of the install? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ted M Harapat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jon Carnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface saves no settings or info! > Thats a great idea. > > Well, the linux system is set to think that it is the list server and virtual > website hostname (set via the /etc/hosts file) so I pulled up lynx to the > localhost virtual domain and it pulled up just fine and I authenticated and went > to the page for adding/removing users and the same thing happened. I told lynx > to Always accept cookies so I know it's working. > > I'm stumped. I don't see where to go with this. I've read many past archives but > am finding nothing related to this exact problem. > > -ted > > Quoting Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Try deleting the old cookie (or delete them all!!!) But, yes the > > virtual > > hosting could do you in. Is the web server configured to "think" it is > > the > > domain name you are using (to browse to it)? What happens when you > > access > > the server locally using something like Lynx (which is a really nice way > > to > > troubleshoot the problem as it tells you everything it's doing)? > > > > Jon Carnes > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Ted M Harapat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Jon Carnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 4:17 PM > > Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Web interface saves no settings or info! > > > > > > > Actually, I am using IE 6.x for this. > > > > > > After reading this, I went ahead and tried this in Netscape 4.79 but > > the > > same > > > thing happened. > > > > > > I have only one more quirky thing with my setup, I should add. The > > hostname > > > isn't really in DNS as I'm calling it. Because this is a brand new > > system > > thats > > > about to take over an old non-Mailman list server, I simply set up > > my > > local > > > hosts file to reflect the new IP so only I could access it. Oh, and > > this > > is also > > > a virtual domain/website on the new linux system, which is why I had > > to do > > that > > > host-file trick so the host-headers would make it come up. > > > > > > Could either of those two things matter? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > -ted > > > > > > Quoting Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > This is definitely a Frequently Asked Question... Undoubtedly you > > are > > > > using > > > > Konqueror as your web browser. Konqueror cannot handle the new > > cookie > > > > layout (in version 2.0.8). Since it mis-reads the cookie, the > > > > authentication it sends when you Post is incorrect. Thus none of > > your > > > > changes are accepted. > > > > > > > > Use Netscape and your problems will be gone. Newer versions of IE > > have > > > > the > > > > same problem, but the work around for IE is to set the web site > > with > > > > your > > > > Mailman install to "Trusted". I have no idea why that works... > > except > > > > maybe > > > > it reads in the cookie without filtering it for bad things. > > > > > > > > Jon Carnes > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > From: "Ted M Harapat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 3:40 PM > > > > Subject: [Mailman-Users] Web interfase saves no settings or info! > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi. I've setup mailman a couple other time in the past year and > > it > > > > worked > > > > near > > > > > flawlessly except for a few tiny things that were worked out. > > I've > > > > installed > > > > > 2.0.8 on a new (Mandrake Linux) system just yesterday. > > > > > > > > > > It all installed fine as always, and I made lists and sent some > > mails > > > > to > > > > them. > > > > > So it appeared to work. So I went to the web interface to start > > to > > > > configure > > > > > them and add the users to the lists. Here's where the problem > > started. > > > > I > > > > put in > > > > > all the info and hit "Submit Your Changes" and it went to that > > next > > > > page > > > > as > > > > > normal but none of my changes were accepted. So I tried > > non-useradd > > > > features and > > > > > the same thing happened... nothing was saving! I've checked > > > > permissions to > > > > make > > > > > sure the mailman group had access to all the files in his home > > > > directory. > > > > I even > > > > > decided to start from scratch and completely reinstall but that > > > > produced > > > > the > > > > > same results. I can't imagine that there is something so > > drastically > > > > different > > > > > from my old installs (of 2.0.6) compared to now that I can't > > figure > > > > it > > > > out. Can > > > > > anyone make any suggestions? > > > > > > > > > > I have gone through all of the web & mailman logs and they are > > > > reporting > > > > no > > > > > errors related to the mailman account or directories or > > permissions. > > > > It > > > > all > > > > > appears perfectly correct. > > > > > > > > > > Please advise. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -ted > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > > ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users