See >> below... On 2/3/09, Jonte Regnéll <[email protected]<jonte%[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi Guy, > > > Thanks Jonte!! It's practically working! :) > > Excellent. > > > I'm just having problems with permissions on the folder that keeps the > > data. Also, the images that appear on the smokeping page (counter) all I > > get are x's where the pictures(graphs) should be... I checked the apache > > error logs... gonna have to work on that. > > > > My _chartscache is located here: /var/www/html/smokeping/img when I put > > a test html file, I get error 403.. so I know it's a permission problem. > > > > If anyone has some recommendations, I'd be glad to hear them... but I'll > > be trying to figure it all out anyways... > > > > Thanks for all your help... the rpm was nice and easy :) I started to > > manually install, ./configure etc.. man.. way too many dependencies, then > > more dependencies to get other dependencies to work!! wtf! :P he he.. > > Good to hear you found the RPM useful. I do think you have a slightly > mixed configuration at the moment. Your "_chartscache_", which I presume > is the "_imgcache_" variable in your config, makes me think you haven't > given up your old hand rolled attempt completely. > > The location you list above would on a normal server end up as > http://localhost/smokeping/img assuming your webroot is /var/www/html. > When you installed the RPM you get an apache application config file > installed into /etc/httpd/conf.d called smokeping. It will configure > your apache server how to work with the installed smokeping setup. > Unless you have edited this file, and I will for the time being assume > that you haven't, there is an Alias that point /smokeping to > /usr/share/smokeping/htdocs and there is no img folder in there which is > why you see the 403 error. > You prob want to create the proper fqdn URL to the last two redirect > statements here, but it's really more of old legacy support. > > Try starting over from scratch and rename all the *.rpmnew files to there > original name, it should start working easily after you provide the basic > changes to this like the actual fqdn part of the cgiurl, Owner and contact > etc. > > When you are done the URL for your installation should be > http://your.fqdn.goes.here.com/smokeping/sm.cgi > > Please remember that smokeping works in two steps. You have the collector > which does all the work, it stores it in rrdtool databases. The last and > final step is the web interface which just creates the graphs you are > asking it for. > > You might want to enable the process to launch on startup > "/sbin/chkconfig smokeping on" And to test to launch it once you changed > your config to what you think it should be "/sbin/services smokeping > start" > as the sm.cgi script reads the config file too and starting the service is > a good way to make sure the syntax is of the file is correct.
>> I try to put what you typed below into the smokeping.conf file, but then I can't get to the page. >>Where exactly does it go? Between <Directory "/usr/share/smokeping"> and </Directory> ? >>Can you give me an example? Otherwise, everything looks great right now :) BTW another issue, you might want to speed up the page with mod_perl. > Just "yum install mod_perl" and you've done the hard part. Then in the > conf.d/smokeping file you need to add this to the "<Directory > "/usr/share/smokeping" >" declaration. > > --- > SetHandler perl-script > PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry > PerlOptions +ParseHeaders > --- > > Please notice that with mod_perl (as for any cgi speedup process) you will > need to restart the webserver (as well as the normal need to restart > smokeping) before any changes to your "config" file takes effect. So apply > it only once your done making changes to your smokeping setup. > > YMMV but I hope that someone finds this helpful, enjoy and good luck. > > Regards, > Jonte. > > _______________________________________________ > smokeping-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users >
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