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["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 9/30/20 11:02 PM, Pinson, Brian wrote:
> Thank you! That helped. Final stretch here... so I go to the webpage and 
> I'm getting: 
> 
> Forbidden
> 
> You don't have permission to access /sympa on this server. 
> 
> 
> Anything come to mind with this? 
> 

Check your webserver log files and share your webserver configuration.

Regards
         Racke


> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@concealed 
> <address@concealed> On Behalf Of Stefan Hornburg (Racke)
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 2:12 PM
> To: address@concealed
> Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Sympa Install
> 
> On 9/30/20 9:08 PM, Pinson, Brian wrote:
>> I'm getting stuck with configuring the sendmail part. 
>> (https://sympa-community.github.io/manual/install/configure-mail-serve
>> r-sendmail.html)
>>
>> Particularly the alias part. What is the "$SENDMAIL_ALIAS" thing it's 
>> talking about? 
> 
> These variables are explained here: 
> https://sympa-community.github.io/manual/layout.html.
> 
> Regards
>         Racke
> 
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: address@concealed 
>> <address@concealed> On Behalf Of Stefan Hornburg 
>> (Racke)
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 10:52 AM
>> To: address@concealed
>> Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Sympa Install
>>
>> On 9/30/20 5:48 PM, Pinson, Brian wrote:
>>> Wish me luck! Going to try the RPM. 
>>>
>>
>> Let us know how it goes ... maybe you can suggest improvements to the 
>> documentation if you find it unclear or missing useful information.
>>
>> Good luck
>>
>>     Racke
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: address@concealed
>>> <address@concealed> On Behalf Of David Verdin
>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 10:25 AM
>>> To: address@concealed
>>> Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Sympa Install
>>>
>>> Another point of attention: The distribution has no impact on Sympa 
>>> administration. Around 45 % of installs are under Redhat (or Fedora, 
>>> centos, etc.), 45 % under Debian (or Ubuntu and the like) and most of 
>>> the 10% remaining are FreeBSD.
>>>
>>> The only impact of distribution is which Sympa version is packaged.
>>>
>>> About it, Soji maintains the RPM, so RedHat can always have the 
>>> latest version packaged, but you need to set up the dedicated 
>>> repository. I don't know how it works for Debian if you want the 
>>> latest version packaged. It seems that current version in Debian is 
>>> something like
>>> 6.2.40 which is good enough.
>>>
>>> Personally, I always install from sources, so I don't care and use 
>>> Ubuntu servers.
>>>
>>> Cheers!
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>> On 30/09/2020 17:14, Pinson, Brian wrote:
>>>> We are generally a RHEL or OEL shop. But, from what I've discovered is 
>>>> Debian seems to be the go-to option. Is the Sympa documentation accurate 
>>>> for the Debian install? I haven't found that their documentation is the 
>>>> best.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you so much for you input. We are trying to move away from 
>>>> Mailman and Sympa seems promising if I could just get it installed! 
>>>> 😃
>>
>>>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: address@concealed
>>>> <address@concealed> On Behalf Of Stefan Hornburg
>>>> (Racke)
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 10:12 AM
>>>> To: address@concealed
>>>> Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Sympa Install
>>>>
>>>> On 9/30/20 4:54 PM, Pinson, Brian wrote:
>>>>> I'm starting from scratch. I'm basically just wanting to feel out what 
>>>>> the community recommends. We have one system running Ubuntu but it just 
>>>>> doesn't seem to be working right. We have to reset our passwords almost 
>>>>> everyday right now. I would just rather rebuild as I think something 
>>>>> was installed incorrectly the first time.
>>>>>
>>>> The community has several opinions and different infrastructure 
>>>> concerns, so there is no general recommendation.
>>>>
>>>> Here is the list of what I prefer:
>>>>
>>>> Distribution: Debian
>>>> Web server: Nginx (faster and more consistent than Apache)
>>>> Database: PostgreSQL (more mature and less surprises than MySQL /
>>>> MariaDB) Mail server: Exim (but Postfix is fine too)
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>           Racke
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: address@concealed
>>>>> <address@concealed> On Behalf Of Stefan 
>>>>> Hornburg
>>>>> (Racke)
>>>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 9:52 AM
>>>>> To: address@concealed
>>>>> Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Sympa Install
>>>>>
>>>>> On 9/30/20 4:42 PM, Pinson, Brian wrote:
>>>>>> Good Morning all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there anyone out there that has a good step-by-step 
>>>>>> installation for Sympa? All the ones that I have tried are either 
>>>>>> incomplete or just don't work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any guidance is greatly appreciated!
>>>>> Hello Brian,
>>>>>
>>>>> it depends on a couple of things:
>>>>>
>>>>> How do you install it? From sources?
>>>>> Which distribution is installed on your server?
>>>>>
>>>>> Database?
>>>>> MTA?
>>>>> Web server?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>         Racke
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Ecommerce and Linux consulting + Perl and web application programming.
>>>>> Debian and Sympa administration. Provisioning with Ansible.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Ecommerce and Linux consulting + Perl and web application programming.
>>>> Debian and Sympa administration. Provisioning with Ansible.
>>>>
>>
>>
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>> Debian and Sympa administration. Provisioning with Ansible.
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