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["Ward, Michael" <address@concealed>]

Hi Olivier – you were right, that was my problem (Adam helped me out with this one earlier) – thanks for the clarification though. I agree – the documentation does need to be a little more precise on this topic J.

 

Regards,

Michael Ward

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From: Olivier Salaün - CRU [mailto:address@concealed]
Sent: Tuesday, 1 August 2006 1:05 a.m.
To: Ward, Michael
Cc: address@concealed
Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Problems getting sympa to use static .css file

 

Background
The reason why Sympa needs a static CSS file is because otherwise each page would require 2 pages to be generated by Sympa : the content and the CSS ; whereas the CSS does not change often. The css_path tells Sympa where the CSS  is stored (usefull to overwrite it) and the css_url is used by Sympa to refer to the CSS.

Your problem
I suppose that you just probably forgot to set the appropriate Apache Alias directive :

Alias  home/sympa/css     /css-sympa

You'll have to change the css_url parameter accordingly :

css_url     http://massey.ac.nz/css-sympa

It probably means that the documentation needs to be more precise regarding this topic.

address@concealed wrote:

I'm currently in the process of setting up Sympa 5.2.1 on Fedora Core 5 in a university environment. We're evaluating Sympa as a possible replacement for our ancient Majordomo list system. So far I've managed to get most of it going

although there are a couple of issues I'm struggling to resolve (I'll only deal with one here).

I came across this list while looking for solutions to a problem I'm having getting sympa to use my static .css file. This post discusses the same problem: http://listes.cru.fr/sympa/arc/sympa-users/2005-06/msg00035.html

In a nutshell: Sympa doesn't appear to be using the static .css file generated by it.

[...]

However once 'install static css' has been clicked and the files generated, this is no longer logged - so sympa is definitely finding the files.