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[Flemming Bjerke <address@concealed>]

Fine!

I chose the most basic installation, I could imagine, and made it quite
easy to carry out.

Your installation is more advanced.

I think a combination of our approaches would be the best.

1. Basic foolproof installation and setup - for test purposes.

2. Additional setup - for production purposes.

flem


On 05-06-2017 01:18, Ashley Jones wrote:
> Hey again,
>
> Here's the post for getting 6.2.16 on Ubuntu 17.04 with CSS bug fix!! ;)
>
>     https://blog.plip.com/2017/06/04/howto-sympa-6-2-on-ubuntu-17-04/
>
> -adj
>
> On 06/04/2017 11:24 AM, Ashley Jones wrote:
>> Flemming,
>>
>> Awesome!  I published a post on installing Sympa 6.1 on Ubuntu 16.04 a
>> bit ago:
>>
>>     https://blog.plip.com/2017/04/03/howto-sympa-6-1-on-ubuntu-16-04/
>>
>> Which reminds me, I need to publish the post on installing Sympa 6.2 on
>> Ubuntu 17.04 which I have more or less ready to go.
>>
>> For your install instructions, you didn't have to make any changes to
>> main.cf to tweak postfix settings?
>>
>> cheers,
>> -adj
>>
>> On 06/04/2017 05:04 AM, Flemming Bjerke wrote:
>>> Installing sympa on debian 8 - getting started
>>> ===============================================
>>>
>>> This presupposes a new installation of debian8, Jessie. Postfix, mysql
>>> and apache2 are used to support sympa. Alternative supporting packets
>>> may be used, and the installation may be done in other ways. This
>>> tutorial should give a point of departure for adaptions.
>>>
>>> You must have a domain or subdomain you will use for sympa (example.com
>>> or sub.example.com) which must have DNS setup (an a-record and a 
>>> mx-record).
>>>
>>> First install supporting packets:
>>>
>>> apt-get install mysql-server mysql-client postfix apache2
>>>
>>> Now install sympa. You must have the root password for mysql ready.
>>> During installation, say yes to dbconfig.
>>>
>>> apt-get install sympa
>>>
>>> SETTING UP
>>>
>>> Set up sympa by running:
>>>
>>> sympa_wizard
>>>
>>> You must at leaat specify the following:
>>>
>>> domain       example.com (OR:sub.example.com)
>>> listmaster     your-administrator-email (e.g. address@concealed)
>>> title            The title of your sympa site
>>> http_host    http://example.com/wws (OR: http://sub.example.com/wws)
>>>
>>> (More detailed setup may be done by editing the sympa.conf file:
>>> nano /etc/sympa/sympa.conf
>>> and thne restart sympa:
>>> /etc/init.d/sympa restart)
>>>
>>>
>>> SUDOERS
>>>
>>> Then, allow sympa to be run by apache (user www-data):
>>>
>>> sudoedit /etc/sudoers
>>>
>>> Add one line containing:
>>>
>>> www-data ALL = (sympa)  NOPASSWD:
>>> /usr/lib/cgi-bin/sympa/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi
>>>
>>> APACHE2
>>>
>>> Now, set up apache2:
>>>
>>> nano
>>> /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
>>>
>>>
>>> Add before </Virtualhost>:
>>>
>>>        Alias /static-sympa /var/lib/sympa/static_content
>>>        ScriptAlias /sympa /usr/lib/cgi-bin/sympa/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi
>>>        <Directory "/var/lib/sympa/static_content">
>>>            Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
>>>            Order allow,deny
>>>            Allow from all
>>>            Require all granted
>>>        </Directory>
>>>
>>> The result should be something like:
>>>
>>> <VirtualHost  *:80>
>>>    DocumentRoot /var/www/html
>>>    ServerName example.com
>>>    ServerAlias *.example.com
>>>    Alias /static-sympa /var/lib/sympa/static_content
>>>    ScriptAlias /sympa /usr/lib/cgi-bin/sympa/wwsympa-wrapper.fcgi
>>>    <Directory "/var/lib/sympa/static_content">
>>>       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
>>>       Order allow,deny
>>>       Allow from all
>>>       Require all granted
>>>    </Directory>
>>> ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
>>> CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
>>> </VirtualHost>
>>>
>>> Enable apache to use cgi-scripts and disable fastcgi-scripts:
>>>
>>> a2dismod fcgid
>>> a2enmod cgi
>>>
>>> Reload apache2:
>>>
>>> service apache2 reload
>>>
>>> SEE IF IT WORKS
>>>
>>> Now, check in a browser whether sympa turns up:
>>> http://example.com/sympa
>>>
>>> If it works, hit first login, and add the email of the listmaster.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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