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[Pierre Labastie <address@concealed>]

On Wed, 2021-01-27 at 12:25 +0900, IKEDA Soji wrote:
> Hi Pierre,l
> 
> On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 23:19:46 +0100
> Pierre Labastie <address@concealed> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We are trying to install sympa on a server, and quite a few things
> > work, but we have problem with the web interface. You can see by
> > yourself navigating to
> > https://gimli.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa
> > there are two lists (used for testing, sorry for the names, we have
> > had several tries :):
> > address@concealed
> > address@concealed
> > 
> > The first list(list4) has no archives, and this is correctly
> > displayed.
> 
> On my side, the error dialog "ERROR (arc) - Archives are empty for
> this list"
> was shown.  It looks correct.
> 
> > The second one has two messages, that can be listed when clicking
> > on
> > "Archive", but when you click on one of the messages, it just
> > returns
> > "File not found."
> 
> On my side, "List archive" page concealed with "I'm not a spammer"
> button.
> The message "File not found." was not returned.  It also looks
> correct.
> 
> > Ok, that could be a problem with the archiver, but now let's go to
> > Support->Documentation.
> > Try to click "general introduction" ... "File not found." again.
> > And
> > actually this happens for all the link from the /help/ page
> > 
> > I do not know how to troubleshoot this. I've tried to set the log
> > level
> > to debug, but nothing jumps to the eye. Actually, when it works, a
> > lot
> > of messages are logged, but when it returns "File not found",
> > nothing
> > is logged...
> > 
> > I understand that the pages are in "tt2" language under
> > /usr/lib/sympa/default/web_tt2, and the html is generated on the
> > fly,
> > but I cannot understand why, for example, help_index is correctly
> > displayed, but not help_introduction.
> 
> On my side,
> https://gimli.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/help/ displays correctly.
> 
> https://gimli.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/help/introduction.html
> displays "File not found."
> 
> IMO It seems due to configuration of HTTP server rather than Sympa.
> In fact, the response header of the latter case contains a field
> that tells the request by web client was processed by PHP handler:
> 
> > HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
> > Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2021 03:02:41 GMT
> > Server: Apache/2.4.46 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.1.1i mod_wsgi/4.7.1
> > Python/3.9 mod_perl/2.0.11 Perl/v5.32.0
> > X-Powered-By: PHP/8.0.0
> > Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=63072000; includeSubdomains;
> > preload
> > Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
> > Connection: Keep-Alive
> > Transfer-Encoding: chunked
> > Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
> 
> Can you disable unused modules in Apache configuration as possible?
> 
> Regards,
> -- Soji
> 
> > Here are the configure options:
> > ./configure --enable-fhs --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/sympa --
> > with-
> > confdir=/etc/sympa --with-piddir=/run/sympa --with-
> > lockdir=/run/lock/subsys --localstatedir=/var
> > 
> > I can send the Constants.pm file if needs be. We followed the
> > manual
> > https://sympa-community.github.io/manual/
> > which was straightforward: thanks for this very good doc!
> > 
> > Any help appreciated, thanks in advance
> > 
> > Pierre Labastie
> > Linux from scratch editor, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org
> > PS : I can read French, but my co editors are from other countries,
> > so writing in English in case they want to access this thread's
> > archives.
> > 

Thanks a lot for the pointer, that was it! Because we want to handle
embeded php in .html files, we pass any link terminating with .html to
php (well, there might be better way, I'm not sure and I'm far from
being a html/php wizzard).

When using buttons on the sympa web interface, this does not go through
.html links, so it is handled by wwsympa, and all is well, but when we
click on a link on the site, it ends with .html, and goes to php (which
returns 404).

The solution is to separate things. I made a vhost for the sympa web
(list3.linusfromscratch.org), which is completely independent on
gimli.linuxfromscratch.org.

Thanks again
Pierre