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. _____________________________________________________________________________ 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 >