mailman virtualhost settings

I found this nice page explaining mailman as subdomain:
My Mailman Virtual Hosting List Setups

But I found this to be too redundant compared to the default settings already been done by the installings process of mailman with postfix.

And there were even some people working with HTML-Header-Redirects in subfolders for their virtualhost.

I just did this in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

 <VirtualHost *:80>  
   ServerName lists.mysite.com  
   ServerAlias lists.mysite.com 
   RewriteEngine on  
   RewriteRule ^/mailman[/]+$ http://lists.mysite.com/mailman/listinfo [L,R]  
   RewriteRule ^/$ http://lists.mysite.com/mailman/listinfo [L,R]  
 </VirtualHost>  

Of course there were the RedirectMatch for /mailman/ in place;
as well as the changes for the hosts in mm_cfg.py and postfix/main.cf like the link above shows.

Mailman had to be initialised again, but then it worked all fine.

Before going to smash something though, test your mailserver with:

mail %TO_ADDRESS%

And send the mail by having just a dot . with an ENTER in one line.

Thats it!

PS: meanwhile I messed it up by playing with the settings.....
and I think my problem was firefox all along with not applying the new rules, but after deleting the cache and refreshing the page.

Anyhow, I changed my settings and it works fine again,
just disable the httpd/conf.d/mailman.conf  by commenting and
add the content to <virtualhost> in httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

 <VirtualHost *:80>  
   ServerName lists.mysite.com  
   ServerAlias lists.mysite.com 
 #  RewriteEngine on  
 #  RewriteRule ^/$ http://lists.mysite.com/mailman/listinfo [L,R]  
 #  RewriteRule ^/mailman[/]+$ http://lists.mysite.com/mailman/listinfo [L,R]  
 ScriptAlias /mailman/ /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/  
 <Directory /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/>  
   AllowOverride None  
   Options ExecCGI  
   Order allow,deny  
   Allow from all  
 </Directory>  
 Alias /pipermail/ /var/lib/mailman/archives/public/  
 <Directory /var/lib/mailman/archives/public>  
   Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks  
   AllowOverride None  
   Order allow,deny  
   Allow from all  
   AddDefaultCharset Off  
 </Directory>  
 # Uncomment the following line, to redirect queries to /mailman to the  
 # listinfo page (recommended).  
 #  
 RedirectMatch ^/mailman[/]*$ /mailman/listinfo  
 </VirtualHost>