Issue with 4.3 RC1

7 messages in this thread

list Tom L. Stewart · Wed, 9 Feb 2011 15:21:24 -0600 ·

I am doing some testing with the new RC1 release and I am having trouble
with the xymon web page. It does come up, but it seems to be adding a
/xymon/ in front of the directories so the web is not picking up the
stylesheets.

 
Here are some source examples:

<!-- Styles for the menu bar -->


<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="/xymon/menu/xymonmenu-blue.css">


<!-- Styles for the Xymon body  -->


<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/xymon/gifs/xymonbody.css">


<!-- The favicon image -->


<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/xymon/gifs/favicon-yellow.ico">


The xymon-cgi directory is working properly.

 
    <div class="outer">


      <span class="menutag">Reports<span class="invis">: </span></span>
 

<a class="inner-1" href="/xymon-cgi/eventlog.sh">Event log
Report</a><span class="invis"> | </span>
 

<a class="inner" href="/xymon-cgi/topchanges.sh">Top Changes</a><span
class="invis"> | </span>
 

<a class="inner" href="/xymon-cgi/report.sh">Availability
Report</a><span class="invis"> | </span>
 

<a class="inner" href="/xymon-cgi/snapshot.sh">Snapshot Report</a><span
class="invis"> | </span>
 

<a class="inner" href="/xymon-cgi/confreport.sh">Config Report</a><span
class="invis"> | </span>
 

<a class="inner" href="/xymon-cgi/confreport-critical.sh">Config Report
(Critical)</a><span class="invis"> | </span>
 

<a class="inner" href="/xymon-cgi/hostgraphs.sh">Metrics Report</a><span
class="invis"> | </span>
 

<a class="inner" href="/xymon-cgi/ghostlist.sh">Ghost Clients</a><span
class="invis"> | </span>
 

<a class="inner" href="/xymon-cgi/notifications.sh">Notification
Report</a>

 
In the Makefile I have the following.

 
# URL for Xymon webpages

XYMONHOSTURL = / 

# URL for Xymon CGIs

XYMONCGIURL = /xymon-cgi

# URL for Xymon Admin CGIs

SECUREXYMONCGIURL = /xymon-seccgi

# Webserver group-ID

HTTPDGID=apache

 
I made / the DocumentRoot and commented out the Alias

DocumentRoot "/home/xymon/server/www"

 
#Alias /  "/home/xymon/server/www/"

<Directory "/home/xymon/server/www/">

    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews

    Order allow,deny

    Allow from all

</Directory>

 
Does anyone have an idea why this is happening? The system is a RedHat
EL6. uname -a shows Linux hostname 2.6.32-71.14.1.el6.x86_64

list Buchan Milne · Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:37:50 +0200 ·

On Wednesday, 9 February 2011 23:21:24 Stewart, Tom L. wrote:

I am doing some testing with the new RC1 release

How did you install? Over a previous release?

▸ quoted from Tom L. Stewart

and I am having trouble
with the xymon web page. It does come up, but it seems to be adding a
/xymon/ in front of the directories so the web is not picking up the
stylesheets.


[..]

# URL for Xymon webpages

XYMONHOSTURL = /

# URL for Xymon CGIs

XYMONCGIURL = /xymon-cgi

# URL for Xymon Admin CGIs

SECUREXYMONCGIURL = /xymon-seccgi

# Webserver group-ID

HTTPDGID=apache

Check the XYMON.*URL entries in your xymonserver.cfg file.

Regards,
Buchan

list Tom L. Stewart · Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:38:22 -0600 ·

This is a brand new install on a newly created server.

Tom

▸ quoted from Buchan Milne


-----Original Message-----
From: Buchan Milne [mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 2:38 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Cc: Stewart, Tom L.
Subject: Re: [xymon] Issue with 4.3 RC1

On Wednesday, 9 February 2011 23:21:24 Stewart, Tom L. wrote:

I am doing some testing with the new RC1 release

How did you install? Over a previous release?

and I am having trouble
with the xymon web page. It does come up, but it seems to be adding a
/xymon/ in front of the directories so the web is not picking up the
stylesheets.


[..]

# URL for Xymon webpages

XYMONHOSTURL = /

# URL for Xymon CGIs

XYMONCGIURL = /xymon-cgi

# URL for Xymon Admin CGIs

SECUREXYMONCGIURL = /xymon-seccgi

# Webserver group-ID

HTTPDGID=apache

Check the XYMON.*URL entries in your xymonserver.cfg file.

Regards,
Buchan

list Larry Barber · Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:00:17 -0600 ·

I suspect that you'll find that you have some overly strict permission
settings on your web files. I had a similar problem when I installed RC1 and
relaxing the permissions so that the Apache user (usually "nobody") can read
the files fixed the problem. You will probably want to make sure that the
xymon user account has a umask no more restrictive than 022. Also, if this
is a new OS install, make sure selinux is turned off.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Stewart, Tom L.

▸ quoted from Tom L. Stewart

<user-f210f371749e@xymon.invalid>wrote:

This is a brand new install on a newly created server.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Buchan Milne [mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 2:38 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Cc: Stewart, Tom L.
Subject: Re: [xymon] Issue with 4.3 RC1

On Wednesday, 9 February 2011 23:21:24 Stewart, Tom L. wrote:

I am doing some testing with the new RC1 release

How did you install? Over a previous release?

and I am having trouble
with the xymon web page. It does come up, but it seems to be adding a
/xymon/ in front of the directories so the web is not picking up the
stylesheets.


[..]

# URL for Xymon webpages

XYMONHOSTURL = /

# URL for Xymon CGIs

XYMONCGIURL = /xymon-cgi

# URL for Xymon Admin CGIs

SECUREXYMONCGIURL = /xymon-seccgi

# Webserver group-ID

HTTPDGID=apache

Check the XYMON.*URL entries in your xymonserver.cfg file.

Regards,
Buchan

list Tom L. Stewart · Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:42:01 -0600 ·

I don't see how permissions would create the web page links with the
extra /xymon/ as part of the link.

 
For example the xymon web page comes up, but the Main view link shows
"/xymon/xymon.html" instead of just "xymon.html". I don't know why xymon
is adding the extra path. Any paths with xymon-cgi work without any
problems.

 
Thank you,

Tom

▸ quoted from Larry Barber

From: Larry Barber [mailto:user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 1:00 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [xymon] Issue with 4.3 RC1

I suspect that you'll find that you have some overly strict permission
settings on your web files. I had a similar problem when I installed RC1
and relaxing the permissions so that the Apache user (usually "nobody")
can read the files fixed the problem. You will probably want to make
sure that the xymon user account has a umask no more restrictive than
022. Also, if this is a new OS install, make sure selinux is turned off.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Stewart, Tom L.
<user-f210f371749e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

This is a brand new install on a newly created server.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Buchan Milne [mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 2:38 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Cc: Stewart, Tom L.
Subject: Re: [xymon] Issue with 4.3 RC1

On Wednesday, 9 February 2011 23:21:24 Stewart, Tom L. wrote:

I am doing some testing with the new RC1 release

How did you install? Over a previous release?

and I am having trouble
with the xymon web page. It does come up, but it seems to be adding a
/xymon/ in front of the directories so the web is not picking up the
stylesheets.


[..]

# URL for Xymon webpages

XYMONHOSTURL = /

# URL for Xymon CGIs

XYMONCGIURL = /xymon-cgi

# URL for Xymon Admin CGIs

SECUREXYMONCGIURL = /xymon-seccgi

# Webserver group-ID

HTTPDGID=apache

Check the XYMON.*URL entries in your xymonserver.cfg file.

Regards,
Buchan

list Larry Barber · Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:06:57 -0600 ·

The "extra" xymon is supposed to be there. It is what tells your web server
were to look for your web pages. Your configuration file for Apache should
contain something like this:

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

Which tells Apache to look at /usr/local/xymon/server/www whenever it sees
"xymon". There are similar entries for xymon-cgi and cgi-secure.

Check you web server logs, I'm almost positive you find that Apache cannot
access the web page files.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Stewart, Tom L.

▸ quoted from Tom L. Stewart

<user-f210f371749e@xymon.invalid>wrote:

 I don’t see how permissions would create the web page links with the
extra /xymon/ as part of the link.


For example the xymon web page comes up, but the Main view link shows
“/xymon/xymon.html” instead of just “xymon.html”. I don’t know why xymon is
adding the extra path. Any paths with xymon-cgi work without any problems.


Thank you,

Tom


*From:* Larry Barber [mailto:user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid]
*Sent:* Thursday, February 10, 2011 1:00 PM
*To:* xymon at xymon.com

*Subject:* Re: [xymon] Issue with 4.3 RC1


I suspect that you'll find that you have some overly strict permission
settings on your web files. I had a similar problem when I installed RC1 and
relaxing the permissions so that the Apache user (usually "nobody") can read
the files fixed the problem. You will probably want to make sure that the
xymon user account has a umask no more restrictive than 022. Also, if this
is a new OS install, make sure selinux is turned off.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Stewart, Tom L. <user-f210f371749e@xymon.invalid>
wrote:

This is a brand new install on a newly created server.

Tom


-----Original Message-----
From: Buchan Milne [mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 2:38 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Cc: Stewart, Tom L.
Subject: Re: [xymon] Issue with 4.3 RC1

On Wednesday, 9 February 2011 23:21:24 Stewart, Tom L. wrote:

I am doing some testing with the new RC1 release

How did you install? Over a previous release?

and I am having trouble
with the xymon web page. It does come up, but it seems to be adding a
/xymon/ in front of the directories so the web is not picking up the
stylesheets.


[..]

# URL for Xymon webpages

XYMONHOSTURL = /

# URL for Xymon CGIs

XYMONCGIURL = /xymon-cgi

# URL for Xymon Admin CGIs

SECUREXYMONCGIURL = /xymon-seccgi

# Webserver group-ID

HTTPDGID=apache

Check the XYMON.*URL entries in your xymonserver.cfg file.

Regards,
Buchan

list Tom L. Stewart · Thu, 10 Feb 2011 15:40:38 -0600 ·

We found out the problem. If you don't input the proper answers the
first time, the default adds the /xymon/. Make clean and changing the
Makefile does not change it after the fact. We had to remove the source
directory and reconfigured with the proper answer the first time and it
now works as expected.

 
Thank you all for looking into this.

▸ quoted from Larry Barber

Tom

From: Larry Barber [mailto:user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 3:07 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [xymon] Issue with 4.3 RC1

The "extra" xymon is supposed to be there. It is what tells your web
server were to look for your web pages. Your configuration file for
Apache should contain something like this:

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

Which tells Apache to look at /usr/local/xymon/server/www whenever it
sees "xymon". There are similar entries for xymon-cgi and cgi-secure. 

Check you web server logs, I'm almost positive you find that Apache
cannot access the web page files. 

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Stewart, Tom L.
<user-f210f371749e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

I don't see how permissions would create the web page links with the
extra /xymon/ as part of the link.

For example the xymon web page comes up, but the Main view link shows
"/xymon/xymon.html" instead of just "xymon.html". I don't know why xymon
is adding the extra path. Any paths with xymon-cgi work without any
problems.

Thank you,

Tom

From: Larry Barber [mailto:user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 1:00 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com

Subject: Re: [xymon] Issue with 4.3 RC1

I suspect that you'll find that you have some overly strict permission
settings on your web files. I had a similar problem when I installed RC1
and relaxing the permissions so that the Apache user (usually "nobody")
can read the files fixed the problem. You will probably want to make
sure that the xymon user account has a umask no more restrictive than
022. Also, if this is a new OS install, make sure selinux is turned off.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Stewart, Tom L.
<user-f210f371749e@xymon.invalid> wrote:

This is a brand new install on a newly created server.

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: Buchan Milne [mailto:user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 2:38 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Cc: Stewart, Tom L.
Subject: Re: [xymon] Issue with 4.3 RC1

On Wednesday, 9 February 2011 23:21:24 Stewart, Tom L. wrote:

I am doing some testing with the new RC1 release

How did you install? Over a previous release?

and I am having trouble
with the xymon web page. It does come up, but it seems to be adding a
/xymon/ in front of the directories so the web is not picking up the
stylesheets.


[..]

# URL for Xymon webpages

XYMONHOSTURL = /

# URL for Xymon CGIs

XYMONCGIURL = /xymon-cgi

# URL for Xymon Admin CGIs

SECUREXYMONCGIURL = /xymon-seccgi

# Webserver group-ID

HTTPDGID=apache

Check the XYMON.*URL entries in your xymonserver.cfg file.

Regards,
Buchan

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