If this is your first installation of sympa, please load this file with your %%DB_TYPE%% database client: %%PREFIX%%/libexec/sympa/create_db.%%DB_TYPE%% Before configuring sympa, you need to copy the samples: cp /usr/local/etc/sympa.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/sympa.conf cp /usr/local/etc/wwsympa.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/wwsympa.conf To configure sympa interactively, please run: perl %%PREFIX%%/libexec/sympa/sympa_wizard.pl You may also manually edit the two configuration files: %%PREFIX%%/etc/sympa.conf %%PREFIX%%/etc/wwsympa.conf To set up the wwsympa server, add something like this to your Apache configuration file: DocumentRoot "%%DATADIR%%" AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 DirectoryIndex wws Options +Indexes %%FCGI%% LoadModule fastcgi_module libexec/apache2/mod_fastcgi.so %%FCGI%% %%FCGI%% SetHandler fastcgi-script %%FCGI%% Allow from all Allow from all ScriptAlias /wws %%PREFIX%%/libexec/sympa/wwsympa-wrapper