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[Alan Hicks <address@concealed>]

    On 19/08/2023 03:19, 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!
      
      
      Regards,
      
      Janky Jay
      
      
    
    Hello Janky,

Hard to say without knowing more about your error messages and obfuscating  https://lists.domain.tld doesn't help.

From your description you appear to have the main fcgi working, so it could be either misconfigured robot, missing _javascript_, or Content Security Policy violation.

You should get more info from your browser's inspect/console (Firefox, Chrome).

Here's a fully working live example for reference: https://quite-radical.com/wws/info/newsletter

Regards,
Alan

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