Use a local domain reverse proxy for accessing mailman

By default alternc panel runs as a uid which is not accepted by the
debian version of mailman. This takes any requests are proxies it
through mailman.localdomain which runs as the default www-data user.

Refs AlternC#14

Makefile

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ install:
 	chown 1999:1999 -R $(DESTDIR)/usr/share/alternc/panel/
 	install -m 0644 mm_cfg.py \
 		$(DESTDIR)/etc/alternc/templates/mailman/
+	install -m 0644 alternc-mailman.conf $(DESTDIR)/etc/alternc/alternc-mailman.conf
 	install -m 0644 -o root -g root src/get_url_alternc.py src/set_url_alternc.py \
 		$(DESTDIR)/usr/lib/mailman/bin/
 	install -m 0755 src/update_mailman.sh \

alternc-mailman-install

@@ -30,14 +30,15 @@ then
     echo "ensuring apache2 symlink is setup in /etc/apache2/conf.d/"
     # compatibility with both Apache 2.2 and 2.4 makes it Wheezy AND Jessie-compliant : 
     if [ -d "/etc/apache2/conf.d" ]
-	then
-	ln -sf /etc/mailman/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/mailman.conf 
+    then
+        ln -sf /etc/alternc/alternc-mailman.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/mailman.conf
     fi
-    if [ -d "/etc/apache2/conf-enabled" ]
-	then
-	ln -sf /etc/mailman/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/mailman.conf 
+    if [ -d "/etc/apache2/conf-available" ]
+    then
+        ln -sf /etc/alternc/alternc-mailman.conf /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/mailman.conf
+        a2enconf mailman.conf
     fi
-fi  
+fi
 
 if [ "$1" = "before-reload" ]
 then

debian/alternc-mailman.postinst

@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ case "$1" in
 
     echo "installing required apache modules" 
     a2enmod rewrite
+    a2enmod proxy
     # only necessary on Jessie: 
     a2enmod cgi || true 
 

mm_cfg.py

@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@
 DEFAULT_MSG_FOOTER for an example."""
 
 
+# This is some trickery to reverse proxies to work with list creation
+# and when restarting mailman.
+import os
+if os.environ.get('REQUEST_URI') is not None:
+    os.environ["REQUEST_URI"] = os.environ["REQUEST_URI"].replace("/cgi/", "/cgi-bin/")
+
 #######################################################
 #    Here's where we get the distributed defaults.    #
 
@@ -86,3 +92,4 @@
 # Alternc-mailman does the job of creating aliases for us.
 MTA = None # So that mailman skips aliases generation
 
+VIRTUAL_HOST_OVERVIEW = False