On 3/6/24 1:33 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 12:13 PM Stephen J. Turnbull < turnbull.stephen.fw@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:
Odhiambo Washington writes:
The odd thing is that the HOWTO that he followed never involves the manipulation of any urls.py at all - it's not even mentioned at any point. So obviously the issue is caused by something else and I suspect something within Apache needs to be re-evaluated in the guide.
The HOWTO installs mailman-web which contains a urls.py.
Note that Apache doesn't know about the "/postorius" and "/hyperkitty" URI paths. It is quite unclear to me how this works at all with either the
path('mailman3/', include('postorius.urls')), path('archives/', include('hyperkitty.urls')), path('postorius/', include('postorius.urls')), path('hyperkitty/', include('hyperkitty.urls')),version of urls.py or the reverse order version
path('postorius/', include('postorius.urls')), path('hyperkitty/', include('hyperkitty.urls')), path('mailman3/', include('postorius.urls')), path('archives/', include('hyperkitty.urls')),
This is an issue with Django. I'm not sure of the exact mechanism, but consider the first of the above two sets. If you go to the mailman3/ URL that gets redirected to the postorius/ URL. I.e. two paths that ultimately reference the same thing wind up considering the second path as the canonical path and redirecting the first path to the second.
I was not initially aware of this when I added the postorius/ and hyperkitty/ paths to mailman_web/urls.py. I did this with the intent of making either set of paths work, and I added those paths after the mailman3/ and archives/ paths, and this version got released as mailman-web 0.0.8. That caused the recommended Apache config to fail because now the mailman3/ and archives/ paths were redirected to the postorius/ and hyperkitty/ URLs which are not in the recommended Apache config.
I have since reordered the paths in mailman_web/urls.py, but that version isn't yet released. Thus the issue. See https://lists.mailman3.org/archives/list/mailman-users@mailman3.org/message/... for some background.
My thinking then is that the documentation at https://docs.list.org/en/latest/install/virtualenv.html#apache-configuration needs to be fixed by adding the missing bits,
What needs to be done is a mailmab-web 0.0.9 release in PyPI. This will fix the issue.
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