I set the wildcard at GoDaddy to our IP address. The name lists.sfcomplex.org now resolves to www.sfcomplex.org. Progress but not quite there.
Perhaps we have a misunderstanding. Should we be able to access the mailing lists through a web interface outside of Virtualmin?
Also, you say Vrtualmin cannot manage GoDaddy registrations. Can it manage other registrars?
At a guess, the "bug" here is that Joyent should include their 4 nameservers for each dedicated host, just as they do for their shared hosting.
My shared hosting does not have this problem, and subdomains are handled in two ways: one via Apache instituting the http://wiki.foo.com -> http://foo.com/wiki convention; the second by using the domains/wiki.foo.com sub virtual server configuration.
If Virtualmin is having external dependencies of this sort, Joyent should help in one of several ways. Which I won’t enumerate, I’ve been way to verbose already!
I think you will have to talk to Joyent about getting the lists.sfcomplex.org domain working, as this is their special way of setting up Mailman. It should allow you to access Mailman from outside of Virtualmin though.
As for registrars, Virtualmin can currently only register domains with Register.com.
BTW: Just a quick update about Joyent and Mailman.
Joyent has recently moved its dedicated hosting to a pkgsrc template, as they call it. (Shared apparently was already there)
This means a lot more software is now available. They make many of these packages available on the new dedicated systems, and have binaries precompiled from the pkgsrc source based installs. So now mailman is indeed available, although the configuration apparently is err… difficult. Here’s their current list:
http://pkgsrc.joyent.com/2007Q4/
As I understand it, the pkgsrc (netBSD based) template is good news from an availability standpoint, much of the Linux & BSD software now is available for OpenSolaris.
Joyent’s Mailman setup is actually a little different from the standard used by regular Virtualmin installs - they use that special lists. sub-domain, which you’d have to add at Services -> DNS Domain in Virtualmin.
I’m not sure what their special manage URL was set to, but I guess something like http://lists.${DOM}/mailman/admin
I’m not sure what their special manage URL was set to, but I guess something like http://lists.${DOM}/mailman/admin
1 - Simply configure this with apache’s httpd.conf or with .htaccess in our top level.
2 - Create an entirely new virtual server, with the subdomain lists.sfcomplex.org. I believe this would create a new file hierarchy within domains/lists.sfcomplex.org.
3 - Create a new dns entry which has an A record for lists.sfcomplex.org and have it resolve to a port number managed by mailman.
… the list goes on! So basically I’m not clear what the sub-domain means in terms of Solaris/Joyent/Virtualmin interactions. Administration conventions, I guess.
One specific puzzle for me is the DNS management. If we create a true lists.sfcomplex.org subdomain, does it use Joyent’s name server? Our BIND server on our Accelerator? Or are we supposed to somehow manage our own name service externally to Joyent (GoDaddy is our registrar as well as name server now)?
I just bought both webmin books you and Joe wrote, as well as downloaded their .pdfs, so I guess I’ll eventually get it!
Keep up the good work, btw, we’re REALLY grateful for your product and help!
I’m not sure what their special manage URL was set to, but I guess something like http://lists.${DOM}/mailman/admin
1 - Simply configure this with apache’s httpd.conf or with .htaccess in our top level.
2 - Create an entirely new virtual server, with the subdomain lists.sfcomplex.org. I believe this would create a new file hierarchy within domains/lists.sfcomplex.org.
3 - Create a new dns entry which has an A record for lists.sfcomplex.org and have it resolve to a port number managed by mailman.
… the list goes on! So basically I’m not clear what the sub-domain means in terms of Solaris/Joyent/Virtualmin interactions. Administration conventions, I guess.
One specific puzzle for me is the DNS management. If we create a true lists.sfcomplex.org subdomain, does it use Joyent’s name server? Our BIND server on our Accelerator? Or are we supposed to somehow manage our own name service externally to Joyent (GoDaddy is our registrar as well as name server now)?
I just bought both webmin books you and Joe wrote, as well as downloaded their .pdfs, so I guess I’ll eventually get it!
Keep up the good work, btw, we’re REALLY grateful for your product and help!