Mark,

I greatly appreciate the detailed reply. I’ll see if I can get JustHost to fix this for me, although they haven’t been at all responsive which is why I posted a bug report. 
Maybe another fix would be for me to install Mailman into a directory I can access. 

Thanks again,
Rob.

> On Apr 10, 2016, at 1:40 PM, Mark Sapiro <email address hidden> wrote:
> 
> The underlying issue is redirects lose POST data. Most mainstream
> browsers when receiving a 301 or 302 in response to a POST will issue a
> GET of the new URI. HTTP 1.1 defined 307 and 308  redirects to
> specifically say that the browser should use the same request method for
> the new URI, but if the server is issuing a 301 or 302 redirect rather
> than a 307 or 308, the POST data is lost.
> 
> Your issue is not due to a Mailman change as the only change in this
> area was in Mailman 2.1.12 and that change made more URLs relative, not
> fewer. However, Your Mailman installation is cPanel, and this could be a
> cPanel issue. See http://wiki.list.org/DOC/Mailman%20and%20CPanel , but
> http://noonway.com/mailman/admindb/humor_noonway.com is definitely being
> redirected to
> http://just63.justhost.com/mailman/admindb/humor_noonway.com with a 301
> redirect. Many other cPanel Mailman hosts don't do this redirection as
> it breaks other things too.
> 
> Depending on how much access you have to the actual Mailman installation
> on the server, you may be able to change things. At around line 204 in
> Mailman/Cgi/admindb.py you'll see
> 
>        # Now print the results and we're done.  Short circuit for when there
>        # are no pending requests, but be sure to save the results!
>        admindburl = mlist.GetScriptURL('admindb', absolute=1)
> 
> if you remove the ", absolute=1" from the last of those to make it
> 
>        admindburl = mlist.GetScriptURL('admindb')
> 
> that should make the form action URL relative.
> 
> As for changing this in the upstream code, there are several places
> where absolute URLs are generated in this way. I don't know the
> historical reasons for this or what the unintended consequences might be
> if they were changed, so I'm reluctant to do so.
> 
> It definitely appears that just63.justhost.com has made mods to the
> basic cPanel Mailman, e.g. the "delegated access" on the admin(db) login
> pages and the lack of a link in the footer to "Overview of all
> noonway.com mailing lists" (which is another thing that wouldn't work
> because of the redirect), so they ought to fix this too.
> 
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1568547
> 
> Title:
>  admindb POST fails due to absolute addressing
> 
> Status in GNU Mailman:
>  New
> 
> Bug description:
>  The shared server I use employs re-directs from my domain name to
>  their local server domain name. This is causing form submission POSTs
>  to fail in the ADMINDB pages used to moderate user posts, but not in
>  the ADMIN pages used to manage the Mailman list. A review of the
>  server code reveals why -
> 
>  The ADMIN pages use relative addressing in the form POST, so redirects are not an issue. 
>  Whereas the ADMINDB pages use absolute addressing in the form POST. See examples below from my website - 
> 
>  THIS WORKS - From http://just63.justhost.com/mailman/admin/humor_noonway.com
>  <FORM action="../admin/humor_noonway.com/general" method="POST" >
> 
> 
>  THIS DOESN'T WORK - From http://just63.justhost.com/mailman/admindb/humor_noonway.com
>  <FORM action="http://noonway.com/mailman/admindb/humor_noonway.com" method="POST" >
> 
>  This hasn't been an issue for the 12 years I've used Mailman to manage
>  user posts, but all of a sudden user post management is non-
>  functional. I can't tell if this is a change in my shared server
>  setup, or an update to Mailman 2.1.20 causing this.
> 
>  There are probably Apache server settings I could change to solve
>  this, but I can't access the folders needed to do so on a shared
>  server. Is there a reason why the ADMINDB code couldn't be changed to
>  use relative addressing like the code in ADMIN?
> 
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