[wplug-board] Mailman setup and final migration

[Michael Semcheski]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:52 AM, Vance Kochenderfer <vkochend at nyx.net>
wrote:

> I have set up mailman as well as I can, and copied the archives and
> configuration from penguin into the proper places on linode.  There
> are still two remaining problems:
>  1. The web interface is a bit screwed up; I think this has to do
>     with the apache config somehow.
>

I think this is something I can fix, if you give me a little more
information.  I am pretty comfortable with Apache conf's.



>  2. There appears to be no good way to change the host name that
>     mailman uses, so I can't set it up as linode.wplug.org and
>     then make a clean switch to www.wplug.org as I had hoped.
>     Right now it is set up for the hostname www.wplug.org and
>     e-mail domain wplug.org, but obviously this won't really work
>     until the DNS is switched over.
>

Would it be better to create MX records for wplug.org, and point them at
linode.wplug.org?  We might even be able to proxy www.wplug.org/mailman ->
linode.wplug.org.

I'm going to be a little bit busy on the 27th due to some maintenance at
Pitt, but otherwise the plan is fine with me.

Mike




>
> It seems to me that the best path forward is to dedicate the
> weekend of 25-27 April for the switchover.  We can stop all
> services on penguin on the 25th and do a final rsync to bring the
> mailman files up to date on linode.  Then we can change the DNS
> entries over to point wplug.org and www.wplug.org to linode and do
> a final check of mailman before bringing it live on linode.
>
> Please respond as to what you think of this plan, and especially
> whether or not you would be available the weekend of the 25th-27th
> to assist with the migration.  Thanks.
>
> Vance Kochenderfer        |  "Get me out of these ropes and into a
> vkochend at nyx.net          |   good belt of Scotch"    -Nick Danger
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