Turning Mailman 2.1 into static archives, at the same URLs

I have been running Mailman 2.1 since at least 2006. It is long past end of life, it still needs Python 2.7, and the lists it carries have all gone quiet. Some moved elsewhere (BSDCan went in April 2024), the rest just stopped. Time to turn it off. The one thing I did not want to lose was the archives. Lots of old links point at them, from mailing list posts, from blog posts, and from search engines. The first step of decommissioning was therefore to replace Mailman with plain static archives, at exactly the same URLs. What was there The host is mailman, a FreeBSD 15.1 jail running mailman-2.1.39_4, python27 and Apache 2.4. It served lists on 7 hostnames, each hostname on its own IP address: List Hostname Archive freebsddiary-announce lists.freebsddiary.org public freshports-beta, freshports-coders, freshports-cvs-all lists.freshports.org public freshsource-cvs-all lists.freshsource.org public biking lists.langille.org private pgcon-announce, pgcon-volunteers lists.pgcon.org public…

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