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  • From: "Janky Jay, III" <address@concealed>
  • To: address@concealed
  • Subject: [en@sympa] FreeBSD, Apache, and Sympa Issues.
  • Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 21:19:10 -0600

Hello All,

I attempting to deploy Sympa as a replacement for Mailman on a FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE system. I'm also using Postfix and Apache24+spawn_fcgi (as suggested in the docs). I've followed all the documentation provided at https://www.sympa.community/manual/install.html without much issue but now I'm stuck.

Everything appears to be working as expected aside from the web UI. When I visit https://lists.domain.tld/sympa, it does bring up the home page, but after that, everything fails to work properly. Below is what I'm currently seeing:

When I open the home page (https://lists.domain.tld/sympa), I get a popup error that says " ERROR () - Unknown action ". I can close the popup and continue, but what might the cause of this be? I see no errors in the sympa.log or Apache log.

If I click the "Login" button, it takes me to the login page (great!). However, when I click the "First Login?" link to begin setup, it takes me to https://lists.domain.tld/firstpasswd which displays the message "The requested URL was not found on this server.". Should this be taking me to https://lists.domain.tld/sympa/firstpasswd instead?

Thinking the above might be the issue, if I visit https://lists.domain.tld/sympa/firstlogin, it just shows me a blank page of "Mailing list services" along with a popup error of " ERROR () - List 'firstpasswd' does not exist. " which I suppose is fair.

Can anyone tell me what I might be missing to get this sorted out? I followed the Apache24 configuration suggestion in the manual with the <Location> parameters and there are no syntax or configuration errors when starting Apache.

So far, it looks like Sympa might be a great replacement for Mailman so I'm looking forward to getting started with it. Thanks for awesome contribution to the open-source community!

Regards,
Janky Jay



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