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[IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>]

Hi packagers,

There are known problems with the HTTP server configuration described in 
documentation
and shipped in some distributions so far.


## Apache HTTP Server

It has been reported that when configuring a FastCGI proxy, strict syntax 
checks now 
cause the web service to fail to start.
https://lists.sympa.community/msg/en/2024-07/gEBkopK6LrG5orgF9JhpoQ
This is due to a change in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.60, however it has been 
backported in 
some distributions.

The following no longer works:
```
<Location /sympa>.
    SetHandler "proxy:unix:$PIDDIR/wwsympa.socket|fcgi://"
    ...
```
It should be done as following:
```
<Location /sympa>
    SetHandler "proxy:unix:$PIDDIR/wwsympa.socket|fcgi://localhost"
    ...
```

The same is true for /sympasoap.

## nginx

To support multiple virtual hosts, you can set SERVER_NAME FastCGI variable 
as follows.
Otherwise, only the first virtual host is always used.
```
server {
    ...
    server_name vhost1, vhost2, ... ;

    location /sympa {
        include fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $host;           # <- add this line here
        fastcgi_pass unix:$PIDDIR/wwsympa.socket;
    }
    ...
```
There is no harm in running only a single virtual host with this modification.

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Documentation has already been updated:
https://www.sympa.community/manual/install/configure-http-server-proxy.html


Regards,
— ikedas