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["Scott Johnson" <address@concealed>]

Yes, as usual I found the problem five minutes after I wrote the message, and 
it was inded an incorrect URL. [Insert Homer Simpson imitation here].

I used a template mainly because absolutely everything else is in templates 
and IMO once I overcame the "how-to" it would make administration more 
consistent. 

Again, thanks for the note and apologies for the goofy question! :)

-----Original Message-----
From: Olivier Salaün - CRU [mailto:address@concealed] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:55 AM
To: address@concealed
Cc: address@concealed
Subject: Re: [sympa-users] A simple display template

Hi Scott,

It looks like you did things the right way, including a correct
do_terms() subroutine.
What strikes me is the "terms : unknown list" error you get that seems to 
indicate that you just used a wrong URL to access your action page. 
It should be http://your.site/sympa/terms

You should also check sympa log files.

I have a silly question : is there a reason why a static web page would not 
meet your needs ? Any kind of access control or customization ?

address@concealed wrote:

>I'm trying to get sympa to display a simple bit of static HTML (our user's 
>agreement). I have placed that HTML in its own template, terms.tt2. I have 
>made sure terms.tt2 is owned by the sympa user and I have placed it in the 
>/home/sympa/etc/web_tt2 directory.
>
>I tried to follow the directions here:
>
>http://www.sympa.org/fom-serve/cache/263.html
>
>but unfortunately my perl is extremely weak and I can't get the template to 
>display. I added this:
>
>'terms' => 'do_terms',
>
>to the %comm hash. I added this:
>
>'terms' => [],
>
>to the %action_args hash. I added nothing to the %in_regexp hash because, as 
>I read the instructions, this static template will take no special 
>arguments. 
>
>Unfortunately I couldn't find a subroutine that simply takes the contents of 
>a template and displays them. This is probably again because my perl is very 
>poor. So instead I created the following in wwsympa.fcgi:
>
>sub do_terms {
>    return 1;
> }
>
>I have a very strong feeling this subroutine won't work, but I can't for the 
>life of me figure out what will. All I'm getting are " terms : unknown list 
>wrong_param" errors. 
>
>If someone could point me to a subroutine that simply displays the contents 
>of a template without taking any other action that'd probably fix me right 
>up. I'll just copy & alter to suit.
>  
>