4.57. How do I administer the 'mailman' list (site list)?

See also <http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.025.htp>.

I can't reach the admindb (or the admin pages) page for the 'mailman' list-- going to <http://www.example.com/mailman/admindb/mailman&gt; redirects me back to <http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo&gt;.

The problem is you have a redirect in your web server that is too agressive. You may have something like

 RedirectMatch /mailman[/]*$ http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo

in your httpd.conf. This should be anchored as in

 RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ http://www.example.com/mailman/listinfo

In the mean time, you can get to the admindb pages for the mailman list by appending /x (or /anything) to the url as in

 http://www.example.com/mailman/admindb/mailman/x

(Note that allowing such "URL roulette" may change in the future, http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1879338 )

Last changed on Tue Feb 5 16:28:47 2008 by jidanni Converted from the Mailman FAQ Wizard

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