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

On 08/09/2022 21:01, Michael Heller wrote:
> Hello!  I'm a new Sympa admin and have found the Sympa Community to be 
> invaluable — first-time post.
>
> Our production Sympa v6.1.20 is being upgraded to 6.2.68 on new application 
> and database hosts.
>
> The database was backed up from the production database server and imported 
> to the new test database server.   The Sympa configuration from production 
> app server was copied to the new Sympa app server prior to running the Sympa 
> upgrade command.
>
> I've spent a lot of time learning about Sympa while configuring sympa.conf 
> and robot.conf, among other items, and have finally gotten the Sympa web 
> interface to load, however I do not see any of the migrated lists.

You also need to migrate the Sympa directories, e.g. list_data.

> The new test host is named lists-tst.university.edu <http://lists-tst.university.edu> and was named 
> lists.university.edu <http://lists.university.edu>     I created a new list in the new test 
> environment and it was named address@concealed 
> <mailto:address@concealed>   I could see this in the web interface and also in the 
> database.   That is, in the database I now have lists.university.edu <http://lists.university.edu> 
> and lists-tst.university.edu <http://lists-tst.university.edu>
>
> How do I have a new host lists-tst.university.edu <http://lists-tst.university.edu> 
> (CName to FQDN) access the lists in database under lists.university.edu 
> <http://lists.university.edu> (without the -tst)?

You can use separate domains for the web interface and the Sympa backend with the parameters 
"wwsympa_url" and "domain".

Regards
         Racke

> Thank you in advance for any guidance for this n00bie!  ~Michael


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