[MM3-users] Re: mailman3-web and the django middleware problem

26 Apr 2024

      Using the virtenv installation method seems to be reasonable, yes.
Adding the suggested line i did not try yet.
Thanks!
Am 26. April 2024 10:29:18 MESZ schrieb Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>:
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2024 at 8:30 AM Thomas Stein <himbeere@meine-oma.de> wrote:
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Am 2024-04-26 00:52, schrieb Mark Sapiro:
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On 4/25/24 14:01, Thomas Stein wrote:
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Am 2024-04-25 22:03, schrieb Mark Sapiro:
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I don't know how things are arranged in the Debian/Ubuntu package,
but you may have a settings.py which at the end does something like
try:
  from settings_local import *
except ImportError:
  pass

If that is the case, adding the above snippet to the end of
settings_local.py should work.
Yes, that's the case. I added the snippet in question to
settings_local.py but this leads to another error:
File "/usr/share/mailman3-web/settings.py", line 503, in <module>
from settings_local import *
File "/usr/share/mailman3-web/settings_local.py", line 194, in
<module>
x = list(MIDDLEWARE)
^^^^^^^^^^
NameError: name 'MIDDLEWARE' is not defined
dpkg: error processing package mailman3-web (--configure):
Yes. I understand. In your case, MIDDLEWARE is only defined in
settings.py and not in settings_local.py. As I understand it originally
you added
x = list(MIDDLEWARE)
x.insert(0, 'allauth.account.middleware.AccountMiddleware')
MIDDLEWARE = x

to settings.py and you say it didn't help. I don't know why that
wouldn't work as long as there is no setting for MIDDLEWARE in
settings_local.py and you added that after the MIDDLEWARE setting in
settings.py.
When you say it didn't help, do you mean you still get the
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured:
allauth.account.middleware.AccountMiddleware must be added to
settings.MIDDLEWARE
message or something else? I note that the original post in this thread
refers to /etc/mailman3/mailman-web.py which is presumably where the
package ultimately puts the Django settings, and I don't know what
dpkg --configure is doing.
One thing you could try is in settings_local.py, put
from settings import MIDDLEWARE
x = list(MIDDLEWARE)
x.insert(0, 'allauth.account.middleware.AccountMiddleware')
MIDDLEWARE = x

to work around the NameError.
After that I get:
File "/usr/share/mailman3-web/urls.py", line 20, in <module>
from django.conf.urls import include, url
ImportError: cannot import name 'url' from 'django.conf.urls'
(/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/django/conf/urls/__init__.py)
dpkg: error processing package mailman3-web (--configure):
installed mailman3-web package post-installation script subprocess
returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
I guess I'll wait for the new package for now.
How about adding:
MIDDLEWARE += ('allauth.account.middleware.AccountMiddleware',)
in settings_local.py
And how about you use the virtualenv method
<https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/install/virtualenv.html> for more
peace of mind in the future?