Barry Finkel wrote: >>I wrote, in part, >> >>>>... >>>>I have 13 lists. For each list I checked the URL chains from the >>>> >>>> https://lists.example.com/mailman/listinfo >>>> >>>>Mailman "home page", and for five of the lists I see URL problems. >>>> >>>>... >>>> >>>>Note that the Mailman list archives page lacks a "/" between "mailman" >>>>and "listinfo". For each of these bad lists I ran >>>> >>>> /usr/lib/mailman/bin/withlist -l -r fix_url $list -u lists.example.com >>>> >>>>but there were no changes to the URLs. >>>>... >> >>and "Richard Rae" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: >> >>>You might need to run the fix_url command >>> >>>~/bin/withlist -l -r fix_url listname >> >>Is this any different than the command I ran? I tried the >> >> fix_url >> >>command without the >> >> -u lists.example.com >> >>parameter, and the URLs did not change.
and Mark Sapiro replied: >Yes, it is different, but that is not the current problem (or maybe it >was, but more on that in a paragraph). > >The -u option sets the url_host in case that list's url_host is >different from DEFAULT_URL_HOST, which I gather in your case it is not. > >Here's what I think the issue is. When you originally changed >DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN for the https scheme you left off the trailing >slash and added cgi-bin/as in > >DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'https://%s/cgi-bin/mailman' >(when the 'mailman' list was created) > >also, apparently at some point you had other things like > >DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'https://%s/cgi-bin/mailman/' >(bad3 through bad 6) >and > >DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'https://%s/' >(bad2) > > >You later corrected that to > >DEFAULT_URL_PATTERN = 'https://%s/mailman/' > >and (perhaps later still) ran fix_url which fixed the hidden >web_page_url attribute on these six lists. > >However, the archive pages are static HTML pages. Current index and TOC >pages are constantly rebuilt as messages are added to the archives, >but pages that haven't been updated since before you ran fix_url will >have bad links as you observe. > >There are a few ways to fix this. The easiest is to run 'bin/arch >--wipe' on all the problem lists, but if these lists have archives >going back to older Mailman versions (I'm not sure how old is a >problem, but maybe 2.0.x, maybe pre 2.1.4), there are some potential >issues in that there may be unescaped "From " lines in message bodies >that are taken as mbox message separators by the archiver >(bin/cleanarch can help find/fix these). Also, there is a possibility >that messages may get renumbered in the archive which is not a problem >in itself, but it invalidates any saved URLs linking to individual >archive messages. > >If you don't want to run 'bin/arch --wipe' you can ignore the problem. >The main TOC page and the current period's index pages should get >fixed the next time a message is archived for the list, and new index >pages will be built correctly. If older index pages are a concern, >they can be edited with a script. Mark has a correct diagnosis. I went back through my records, and I did have different DEFAULT_URL_HOST values when I created these test lists. Each list was created with Mailman 2.1.9, so for most of the lists, sending another test posting to the list corrected the archive URL. I did not run bin/arch --wipe because I did not need to, and also I was unsure of the proper parameters. I also did not have time to look for the man page. I know that when I convert a Majordomo list to Mailman, I have to run /usr/lib/mailman/bin/arch --wipe $LISTNAME majordomolist.mbox after creating the majordomolist.mbox file from the Majordomo list archives. On my Ubuntu system man arch displays the man page for arch - print machine architecture One thing that fixurl did that I was not expecting was to change host_name back to the default in one test list where I had set it to another nodename for testing. But re-setting this parameter was easy to do via the admin web interface. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277 9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601 Building 222, Room D209 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994 ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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
