By David Ipswich on

Not sure if I should post this on PHPList forum or Drupal Forum, so I've done it on both.

I'm using Drupal 6.12 and I've downloaded, unpacked, and installed phplist 2.10.10. into a folder in public_html/mailist.

I printed out the Phplist installation documentation (to make it easier to follow) and configured the Phplist config.php file as per the instructions.

However, when I go to mywebsite/mailist/admin I get a 'file not found' message.

I've searched both forums, but I can't find anyone else that simply can't access the admin page.

Anyone with any suggestions as to what I can try next?

Edit: I should have added, I am logged on as user 1, and the database name is correctly named in the above Phplist config.php file.

Perhaps with Drupal I should have downloaded Phplist to a folder in sites/default Anyone know?

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marquardt’s picture

marquardt commented

In the default setup, Drupal will get the "maillist/admin" as a request to itself; but of course it doesn't know what to do with it (there's no Drupal module installed that serves this particular request), so you get an error message.

You need to make sure that Drupal ignores requests to certain subdirectories by tweaking the .htaccess file that comes as part of the Drupal installation - basically, the web server has to pass requests regarding that subfolder (maillist in your case) to the actual application installed in that directory instead of asking Drupal to deal with it.

David Ipswich’s picture

David Ipswich commented

Thanks for your help.

Eventually found that the following worked for me, so I hope it may help someone else:

Went to the PhpList /lists/.htaccess, file.
Found the line: php_flag magic_quotes_gpc on
Commented it out by placing a # at the start of that line.

Everything then works OK, but phpList displays the warning (that can be ignored) "Warning: Things will work better when PHP magic_quotes_gpc = on"

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arrow
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commented

Commenting out the php_flag magic_quotes_gpc on didn't work for me at first, nor did any of the other htaccess modifications I found.

After messing around with this for a couple of days I figured out that if I commented out the php_flag magic_quotes_gpc on and then disabled and re-enabled Clean URLs, everything worked fine.