I'd like to avoid using the standard private archives because that would
require users to log in a second time, with a second username and
password. I'm attempting to hide everything behind a single .htaccess wall.
The other reason is that the users are currently being signed up by an
automated script, which does it silently, so they are not getting any
welcome messages and will not know what their subscription password is.
I'll have a go using ?password=PASSWORD and see where I get to...
Cheers,
Phil
Mark Sapiro wrote:
Phil Ewels wrote:
I'd like to protect my mailing list archives behind some .htaccess
protection, but my mailman installation is a central one which serves a
number of different websites.
Why not just use private archives? You could use a .htaccess file to
prevent access by URL if you really don't want public access at all.
Then all archive access would have to be through
Mailman/Cgi/private.py.
I was thinking I could get around this by using a script to automate a
log in to the archives and then scraping the results back to my
.htaccess protected folder. I'm using GET variables to use the
subscription page at the moment (adding &adminpw=PASSWORD onto the end
of the url) and was wondering if there was anything similar that I could
do with the archives?
If for some reason Mailman's private archive authentication is not
satisfactory and you want to bypass the login page, you can append
?password=PASSWORD (where PASSWORD is a list admin or moderator or
site admin password) to any private archive URL.
Alternatively, if anyone can think of another way to get the archives
behind a .htaccess wall I'd be keen to hear!
If I understood the desired end result, I might be able to suggest more.
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