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Unable to view xymon web pages

list Josh Luthman
Wed, 7 Sep 2011 15:05:33 -0400
Message-Id: <CAN9qwJ-cLhtqOWRJ9P_Z6anhp0kGWZcszt85Hz=user-2e0e4f39ffbd@xymon.invalid>

The user:group running httpd doesn't have permissions to /var/lib/hobbit/www
I expect.

name -i /var/lib/hobbit/www

Debian uses nobody for httpd, I think, so "nobody" needs to execute those
directories and read to bb.html and such.

Easiest way is to have Xymon run with the apache user, or create a group
that the two share, etc.

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX


On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Jewel Makda <
user-f94a3a1b7030@xymon.invalid> wrote:
 I changed the first two lines in my apache2.conf file to:


Alias /xymon/  "/var/lib/hobbit/www/"
<Directory "/var/lib/hobbit/www/">

and now I can see the home page!  But when I click on anything I get:
*Forbidden "You don't have permission to access /hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh
on this server"*

Here is what my apache2.conf file looks like now:

Alias /xymon/  "/home/xymonuser/server/www/"
<Directory "/home/xymonuser/server/www">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /xymon-cgi/ "/home/xymonuser/cgi-bin/"
<Directory "/home/xymonuser/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options ExecCGI Includes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /xymon-seccgi/ "/home/xymonuser/cgi-secure/"
<Directory "/home/xymonuser/cgi-secure">
    AllowOverride None
    Options ExecCGI Includes
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all

Thanks so far so the quick and helpful response!


On 9/7/2011 1:44 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:

Looks like Xymon is running, so that's all good.

Double check to see, in apache2.conf, this:
Alias /xymon/  "/var/lib/hobbit/www/"

Next do a
file index.html #you should see index.html: symbolic link to `bb.html'

I am not sure what you mean here.


Now do an ls -lh bb.html and make sure it isn't blank

Now when you go to foobarhost.com/xymon/ (note the trailing slash) what
page do you see?

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX


On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Jewel Makda <
user-f94a3a1b7030@xymon.invalid> wrote:
 I appended the xymon-apache.conf to the end of the apache2.conf file.
When I run a netstat -an | grep 1984 I get the following:
tcp  0  0  0.0.0.0:1984          0.0.0.0:*              LISTEN
tcp  0  0  127.0.0.1:51250   127.0.0.1:1984   TIME_WAIT
tcp  0  0  127.0.0.1:51251   127.0.0.1:1984   TIME_WAIT

When I search for the bb.html file it's located in:
/var/lib/hobbit/www/bb.html
/var/lib/hobbit/www/bb2.html


On 9/7/2011 1:26 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:

You can use nano or pico as an easier file editor.

Did you overwrite apache2.conf with xymon's xymon-apache.conf?  You are
supposed to append it.

It seems xymond is running.  Do a:

netstat -an|grep 1984

Then look at your web files and look for bb.html and bb2.html, probably in
/var/html/www

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX


On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Jewel Makda <
user-f94a3a1b7030@xymon.invalid> wrote:
I am trying to setup xymon on Ubuntu and for days now have not been able
to get it working.  I have followed the installation steps to a "T" and have
created a user called "xymonuser" for xymon.  I copied the xymon-apache.conf
file to my /etc/apache2/apache2.conf and when I start the xymon.sh service
as xymonuser I only see the "index/xymon" directory when I go to
http://localhost/xymom/
 Here are some of my one of my log files:

tail /var/log/xymon/xymonlaunch.log
   Cannot access checkpoint file /home/xymonuser/srver/tmp/xymond.chk for
restore
   Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984
   Cannot bind to listen socket (Address already in use)
   Task xymond terminated, status 1

There are errors at in my apache logs and when I start the xymon service
it starts successfully.

I have to say I am a newbie when it comes to linux and am still learning
how to use vi.

Jewel


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