Migrating mailman lists from Ubuntu to Fedora 7

[m.roth2006 at rcn.com]

Vicki,

>Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:07:04 +0000 (UTC)
>From: "mailbox at stanfield.net" <vicki at stanfield.net>  
>
>>Hum. Looks like it wants a virtual host, with a DocumentRoot set to
>>/usr/lib/mailman.
>
>OK, I still haven't quite gotten this working. Now I am a bit 
>confused. Why would I need a Virtual Host? Aren't 

Do you still have the httpd.conf from your Ubuntu setup?

> VirtualHosts just to 
>allow you to access different sites on your system by different names 
>or IPs? I don't need to access this separately from my other 

Not exactly. It allows you to run different sites virtually, rather than your entire site under one. For example, you might have one section that you want to be secure, and use https, and another that isn't.

site. I 
>just need to figure out why it is looking for mailman files in 
>/var/www/html. I see that cgi-bin is located at  /usr/lib/mailman and 
>archives located at /var/lib/mailman. I copied the archives stuff from 
>an old system, so they might be in the wrong place. I believe

I don't think they are - it's all Linux, and would be installed the same way (as opposed to, say, Solaris).
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I'm not at home, so I can't look at the copy of httpd.conf you sent, but perhaps mailman actually wants you to set the DocumentRoot to be /usr/lib/mailman, instead of /var/www

     mark