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Hi Jeremy
 
First of all, let me know if you ever visit london and the beers are on me.
 
I can see the initial xymon page :))) I can finally start adding hosts now and
use it.


I removed the entries from the apache-config file and copied the
xymon-apache.conf to etc/httpd/conf.d.
 
Restarted apache then typed servername/xymon and it worked.
 
When I copied xymon-apache.conf the file was already in /etc/httpd/conf.d
because I was prompted to overwrite it.
I don't know what I was doing wrong before. I guess I messed up the
apache-config file and not knowing much about it I
couldn't understand what was going on but since I am planning to use xymon I
should find some apache information and try to understand what each line means
and does.
 
Thank you very much for your detailed explanation to my posts and for the
HowTo's.
 
Many thanks
Yanni
 
 
 
I removed entries from http.conf andNo, don't add the include directive.  After
removing the configuration

entries from httpd.conf, simply copy the file into conf.d.  For
example:
   cp /opt/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/

/etc/httpd/conf.d/
 

On October 20, 2011 at 6:39 AM Jeremy Laidman <user-71895fb2e44c@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Yanni
<user-04b379562e0f@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Hi Jeremy

The reason I am using /opt/xymon is because I thought it would be a good
idea to keep everything related to xymon inside
/opt so that I will not have to look into different directories when I am
looking for any xymon files.

This is a good reason to put the _files_ into /opt/xymon/.  But URL
part of the alias/scriptalias is different.  For instance, you have
this in your ScriptAlias line:

ScriptAlias /opt/xymon/xymon-cgi/ "/opt/xymon/cgi-bin/"

This means the URL to access the CGI scripts would be
http://servername/opt/xymon/xymon-cgi/scriptname.  The "/opt/xymon"
part is not necessary, and I suspect that links within Xymon will not
use it.  Instead, you probably need to have this:

ScriptAlias /xymon-cgi/ "/opt/xymon/cgi-bin/"

In that way, the browser knows the URL path as /xymon-cgi/ but Apache
translates this to /opt/xymon/cgi-bin/.

Please see the outputs below. I excluded the commented lines that contained
the words 'include' and 'Alias' from the outputs.

Thanks, the comments wouldn't help.

The grep output shows no "Alias /xymon/".  The first non-comment line
in my xymon-apache.conf file defines this.  I would imagine yours
should have:

Alias /xymon/ "/opt/xymon/www/"

Include conf.d/*.conf

This confirms that any .conf file inside the conf.d directory will
automatically get included in the config when Apache reloads.  Good.

I will try what you suggested. I will remove the content of
xymon-apache.conf from httpd.cond and then I will add
an 'include' line in httpd.conf like this:

Include /opt/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf

No, don't add the include directive.  After removing the configuration
entries from httpd.conf, simply copy the file into conf.d.  For
example:
   cp /opt/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/

Don't forget to restart Apache.

Cheers
Jeremy