[TriLUG] hostname wrong for mailman

[Scott Lambdin]

This is not about virtual hosts, other than MM seems to use the virtual
class to instantiate the actual hostname.  At some point, something told MM
that was the hostname and it saves it in the mm_cfg.py file.  Perhaps the
system once was that name when MM was installed?  That's what I did once.
In the distant past.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Christopher L Merrill <
chris at webperformance.com> wrote:

> Well yes, kinda.  The thing is, I don't need to do virtual hosts.  At
> least,
> I don't think I do. The fqdn of the machine should be the hostname, which
> should be used for both the URL host and e-mail host.
>
> The default mm_cfg.py file reads:
> > from socket import *
> > try:
> >     fqdn = getfqdn()
> > except:
> >     fqdn = 'mm_cfg_has_unknown_host_domains'
> >
> > DEFAULT_URL_HOST   = fqdn
> > DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = fqdn
> >
> > # Because we've overriden the virtual hosts above add_virtualhost
> > # MUST be called after they have been defined.
> >
> > add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)
>
> I can override the two lines to read:
> DEFAULT_URL_HOST   = 'myhost.com'
> DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'myhost.com'
> and everything works great.
>
> But is something more seriously wrong when getfqdn() is returning the wrong
> thing?
>
> Chris
>
>
> Scott Lambdin wrote:
> > It is not this?
> >
> > http://wiki.list.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=4030592
> >
> >  Changing hostnames
> >
> > These changes should be made $prefix/Mailman/mm_cfg.py. The applicable MM
> > config variables are described in $prefix/Mailman/Defaults.py. Typically
> > something like what follows, at the end of your mm_cfg.py, will do the
> > trick:
> >
> >  DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST = 'your.mailhostname.tld'
> >  DEFAULT_URL_HOST = 'your.webhostname.tld'
> >  VIRTUAL_HOSTS.clear()
> >  add_virtualhost(DEFAULT_URL_HOST, DEFAULT_EMAIL_HOST)
> >
> > and some more add_virtualhost(URL_FQDN, EMAIL_FQDN) if you are using
> virtual
> > hosts.
> >
> > DEFAULT_URL_HOST should be a fully qualified host name, not an actual
> URL,
> > e.g. 'mailman.example.com' not 'http://mailman.example.com'.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Christopher L Merrill <
> > chris at webperformance.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm trying to get mailman setup on a new server.  On the surface, things
> >> appear to be working well.  But something is screwy with the way mailman
> >> is determining the hostname.
> >>
> >> The "hostname" command returns the right thing.  My apache and gallery2
> >> installations appear to be functioning normally - generating correct
> URLs.
> >>
> >> On the /mailman/admin/ page, all links point to the right domain name.
> >> But on /mailman/admin/(list)/ page, all links point to
> >>   http://cpe-098-026-057-###.nc.res.rr.com/mailman/admin/(listname)<http://cpe-098-026-057-/###.nc.res.rr.com/mailman/admin/(listname)>
> <http://cpe-098-026-057-/###.nc.res.rr.com/mailman/admin/(listname)>
>  >>
> >> Based on my google efforts, I tried running
> >>   withlist -l -r fix_url Mailman -v
> >> but it still seems to be finding the .rr.com name
> >>
> >> Any ideas where I should start troubleshooting this?  Is it an OS config
> >> problem or a mailman problem?
> >>
> >> TIA!
> >> Chris
> >>
> >>
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