Hello, Mark, A year has gone by and the system has run well. This was with the ip address set for users on the network in the 'hosts' file and with the 'absolute=1' setting in admindb.py
Recently I changed my dns provider (from dyndns to activedns) and was back reviewing what had happened here because I was again having the same issues. obviously I had not handled it correctly In the end I changed the code in admindb.py from absolute to relative (deleted all instances of 'absolute=1', changed 'hosts' file to show the activedns address .... but I still have dyndns addresses showing on the numeric/alpha address listing both locally and from outside I have changed DEFAULT_URL_HOST in mm_cfg.py appropriately, cleared the browser caches. Where can this be dyndns be hiding, or is it time to run the fix_url script? regards Anne On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 04:14:32PM -0700, Mark Sapiro wrote: > On 4/14/2013 10:13 AM, Anne Wainwright wrote: > > > > I have tried that with partial success, but there is another odd > > unmentioned behaviour that I have/had to cope with. > > > > When I click on a 0-9A-Z link I am dumped outside back at the > > login window. When I log in a second time I am presented with the > > list of members that I wanted in the first place, subsequent > > queries work first time. Similarly when I need to moderate a > > message. > > > If I understand correctly, this is what's happening in those cases. > You have a /etc/hosts or whatever to direct the 'outside' host to the > 'inside' host. You go to the admin or admindb page via an 'inside' > URL (probably a bookmark) and log in. Once there, relative links work > fine. You go to a link with an absolute URL. This points to the > 'outside' host which as far as your browser is concerned is not the > host that set the authentication cookie so it is not returned to the > 'outside' host and you have to log in again. Once you have logged in > once for each host, you are authenticated for the rest of the browser > session. > > The answer is if you have /etc/hosts or whatever routing the 'outside' > host to the 'inside' host, never go to the 'inside' host (fix your > bookmarks to point to the 'outside' host name). > > > > At the moment removing the 'absolute=1' entries does the job 100%. > > > If you do notice any issues related to this, please let me know. > > -- > Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, > San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org