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["Janky Jay, III" <address@concealed>]

Hi Alan,

Thanks for the reply.

On 8/19/23 04:24AM, Alan Hicks wrote:
> 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.
I'd be happy to share the actual domain if you'd like to take a look. I 
would prefer for that to be off-list, though. At least, until I get this 
sorted out.

> 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).
Thanks for the suggestion. I checked the inspect/console in Firefox and 
I see the below errors/warnings when opening the home page:

"Cookie “sympa_session” does not have a proper “SameSite” attribute 
value. Soon, cookies without the “SameSite” attribute or with an invalid 
value will be treated as “Lax”. This means that the cookie will no 
longer be sent in third-party contexts. If your application depends on 
this cookie being available in such contexts, please add the 
“SameSite=None“ attribute to it. To know more about the “SameSite“ 
attribute, read 
https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Set-Cookie/SameSite";

"This page uses the non standard property “zoom”. Consider using calc() 
in the relevant property values, or using “transform” along with 
“transform-origin: 0 0”."

"JQMIGRATE: jQuery.support.boxModel is deprecated"

I did also forget to mention that I'm using Sympa version 6.2.70 (the 
latest available in FreeBSD ports). I'm hoping the port will be updated 
to 6.2.72 in the near future.

> Here's a fully working live example for reference: 
> https://quite-radical.com/wws/info/newsletter
Thanks for this as well. That's what I'm hoping to achieve!

Regards,
Janky Jay