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I am trying to integrate sympa with the suite if tools on our website.  The
first thing I am trying to do is to use SOAP for list creation.  I have the
soap_url set in my sympa.conf and my apache config.  However, the docs on the
sympa site have the apache config using fastcgi.  I am using mod_fcgid and
there is no FastCgiServer directive so I omitted that line.

I am using PHP, here is what I am trying to do:

$SympaSoapClient = new SoapClient('http://my.site.com/sympa/wsdl');
$create_list_params=array($new_list_name,$group_name,'my_create_template',$description,$group_name);
          try {
            $list_created =
$SympaSoapClient->authenticateRemoteAppAndRun('MyApp',$GLOBALS['sys_dbpasswd'],'address@concealed','createList',$create_list_params);
          } catch (SoapFault $soapFault) {
            echo $soapFault;
         }

I get this error:
SoapFault exception: [HTTP] Unable to parse URL in
/home/www/my.site.com/htdocs/mail/admin/index.php:57 Stack trace: #0 [internal
function]: SoapClient->__doRequest('__call('authenticateRem...', Array) #2
/home/www/my.site.com/htdocs/mail/admin/index.php(57):
SoapClient->authenticateRemoteAppAndRun('MySite', 'MyPassword',
'USER_EMAIL=admi...', 'createList', Array) #3 {main}   

It sounds like it is not seeing the soap_url but when I look at the wsdl 
output
manually, it is there.  Hints, suggestions?