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[Steven Peterson<address@concealed>]

I would like to define a separate style sheet for each virtual robot.  My
original understanding was that by setting the url of the stylesheet in the
css_url parameter:
  e.g. css_url  http://www.mydomain.com/css/

Sympa would then serve this url in the head of each wwwsympa request.  I used
http://www.mydomain.com/sympa/css/style.css to get the default style sheet, 
put
it in my webserver document directory under a directory called 'css' and
restarted httpd and sympa.  However, sympa still includes the old location in
the header of every wwwsympa request:
 ie. <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.mydomain.com/sympa/css/style.css";
type="text/css" media="screen"/>

Wwwsympa would not serve this new css url in the web pages until I set the
css_path parameter.  Once I set the css_path parameter, wwwsympa began serving
the new style url with the document.

I looked through this list and saw that Oliver had recommended someone solve a
similar problem by creating an alias in httpd.conf to point to the static 
style
sheet instead of the dynamic one:
  e.g. Alias  home/sympa/css     /css

And change the css_url parameter accordingly :
  e.g. css_url     http://massey.ac.nz/css-sympa

I guess I do not understand the relationship of css_path and css_url;  It 
would
seem that setting only the css_url and having wwsympa reference that url in
each request would be enough to serve up the static style sheet to a web
browser.  Why set the css_path or the web server Alias at all?

- Steve