Thanks, defining the CGI variable with the complete site URL fixed this
problem for me.

I'm still curious if someone might be able to answer why defining
a WA_URL variable fixed it in one place, but did not seem to get used in
another place.

Thanks again.

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Louis J. Wiesemann      [log in to unmask]     502-852-8952

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Kathy Montgomery wrote:

> I don't know what kind of change your administrator made, but I had plenty of
> problems in this area when we changed our web server to a port other than the
> default port, which meant the URL had to change to specify the port explicitly.
> If memory serves correctly, the WWW_ARCHIVE_CGI variable originally contained a
> relative pathname (/cgi/wa on our Solaris system).  We were finally able to get
> the links in the web interface to work right when we changed the variable to
> contain the FULL address:
> WWW_ARCHIVE_CGI="http://listserv.albany.edu:8080/cgi-bin/wa" in our case.
>
> Hope that's helpful.
>
> Kathy Montgomery
> University at Albany
>
> Louis J Wiesemann wrote:
>
> > We are running LISTSERV 1.8d 2000b with the web access configured.  Due to
> > a change made by our web administrator I needed to update a couple of WA
> > links.  I found them in WWW_ARCHIVE_INDEX and WWW_ARCHIVE_TRAILER
> > templates.  They both used a variable called &WA_URL.  Can anyone tell me
> > what defines this variable?  I didn't want to hard code my update in the
> > templates, but wanted to reset this value whereever it is configured.  I
> > could not find it referenced in the documentation or in searching this
> > list.  I also checked other site configuration pages in WA but could not
> > find it.  Its value appears to be equal to &MYHOST plus the
> > WWW_ARCHIVE_CGI value in go.user, but I could not find anywhere that this
> > was defined.  Is there a way to change this variable?
> >
> > As an experiment I did try defining it to the value I needed with a set
> > command in WWW_IMAGES_URL template.  The result confused me because it
> > worked fine for the trailer template (it got the new value).  But even
> > though it uses the same variable the index template did not reflect
> > the change.  Even if that is not the best way to reset this value I
> > don't understand why the change only seemed to affect one instance of
> > the variable.
> >
> > Thanks for any information on this.
> >
> > _____________________________________________________________________________
> > Louis J. Wiesemann      [log in to unmask]     502-852-8952
>