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[Paul N. Pace]

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Francis Daly <francis at daoine.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 01:05:29PM -0700, Paul N. Pace wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
>> Other than that, I tried to follow both guides to the letter. When I
>> go to http://lists.example.com I get redirected to
>> http://lists.example.com/mailman/listinfo (on Chrome and FF, but not
>> IE) and I get a 400 Bad Request Request Header Or Cookie Too Large.
>
> Different redirection per client is unexpected. I'm guessing that the
> browser cache wasn't cleared? It's frequently simplest to test using
> "curl" to see exactly what response is sent.

I did try clearing cache and cookies as well as opening the site on a
device that had never opened it (my BlackBerry) and received the same
error.

Curl just states "moved permanently" as per the changes put in the
sites-available file (see below).

>
>> Any ideas on where to start looking?
>
> Your nginx.conf almost certainly does a "proxy_pass" to the web server
> that actually runs mailman.
>
> I suggest you confirm that mailman is installed and working correctly
> on that web server -- if it isn't, nginx won't help.

How to do this other than viewing the mailman page?

> If the 400 error comes from nginx, there should be something in the logs
> to indicate the nature of the problem.

Strangely, the logs do not state any errors. This is the server block
I added to sites-available file (mostly) as per the nginx wiki. Was I
supposed to add this to the nginx.conf file?

server {
        listen [::]:80;
        server_name lists.example.com;
        root /usr/lib;
        access_log /var/www/example.com/logs/access.log;
        error_log /var/www/example.com/logs/error.log;

        location = / {
                rewrite ^ /mailman/listinfo permanent;
        }

        location / {
                rewrite ^ /mailman$uri?$args;
        }

        location = /mailman/ {
                rewrite ^ /mailman/listinfo permanent;
        }

        location /mailman/ {
                include proxy_params;
                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1/;
                proxy_set_header Host $host;
                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        }

        location /cgi-bin {
                rewrite ^/cgi-bin(.*)$ $1 permanent;
        }

        location /images/mailman {
                alias /var/lib/mailman/icons;
        }

        location /pipermail {
                alias /var/lib/mailman/archives/public;
                autoindex on;
        }
}


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