I have a 2 day old virtualmin on a Ubuntu trusty server.
The problem is when I try to use the mailman admin URLs the server isn't found.
If I hit the "Tend to pending moderator requests" within the mailman module it takes me to http://mail.mydomain.com/virtualmin-mailman/admindb.cgi/thelist There I get a "Server not found Firefox can't find the server at mail.mydomain.com." Of course mydomain = my real domain name which works.
It seems the mail subdomain is not set up. The rest of the URL seems sensible.
I think mailman came bundled with the virtualmin package but I've installed so much stuff in the last few days I could be mistaken. Thanx in advance for clues.
Howdy,
Is DNS being hosted at a third party?
If so, you would need to manually setup those DNS records at your DNS provider.
That is, you would need to create a DNS 'A' or 'CNAME' record for "mail.mydomain.com" that points to your server.
-Eric
Thanx. That got me further. The server is now found but the URL is not. The requested URL /virtualmin-mailman/admindb.cgi/list was not found on this server.
admindb.cgi lives in /usr/share/webmin/virtualmin-mailman
I tried modifying some of the settings in the mailman module but I haven't found much info on what they should be.
I've done back to the defaults apart for Mailman base directory = /var/lib/mailman because the default didn't work. The default is /usr/local/mailman
.php works fine on my server but I'm not sure .cgi has been tested.
Hmm, I believe it would usually be accessing that URL via Virtualmin... what happens if you add port 10000 to that?
For example, does this URL here work for you:
http://mail.mydomain.com:10000/virtualmin-mailman/admindb.cgi/thelist
Nice try but no that doesn't work. I needed to change to https but it then just gives a login prompt. Trying again I got a unknown referers error. Yes that was the link used went trying to get to the admin page from inside virtualmin
The link that would normally be used is http://mail.domian.com/mailman/admindb/list It also gives - The requested URL /mailman/admindb/list was not found on this server.
The problem seems to be related to the migration of the lists from the old server. If I create a fresh list it works perfectly. The new list URL doesn't use the mail subdomain but does use cgi-bin cgi-bin/mailman/admindb/testlist
Removing the "mail." from the "bad" url lets me see the admin page but hitting "submit" data fails.
I suspect the old server had a properly configured mail subdomain which is now lacking.
The solution may lie in a local config file - I've been hunting in the global config up to now. --later-- The problem appears to be in the local config.pck file. http://vuksan.com/linux/mailman_moving_lists.html
Finally I found the systax for "withlist" here. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2006-September/053606.html
In my case I'd cd to /var/lib/mailman/lists and run withlist -l -r fix_url mylistname -u eddiem.com
Restarted mailman and the admin URLs from the webmin mailman module worked. Any old links in list emails were still broken and new list messages now have working links.