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

On 19/08/2023 06:19, Janky Jay, III wrote:
> 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!

Hello,

the value for wwsympa_url in the configuration should be 
https://lists.domain.tld/sympa.

Please verify.

It also helps to post the Apache configuration here.

Regards
        Racke


> Regards,
> Janky Jay

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