[hobbit] Can't access xymon web page on new install.

[Josh Luthman]

Restart the processes and look at anything in the logs?

If it were me I would just compile it, leaving defaults.  I've done it
with every version of CentOS since 4.2 with issues.

On 6/10/09, Paul Ward <pnward at googlemail.com> wrote:
> namei -m /usr/lib/xymon/server/www
> f: /usr/lib/xymon/server/www
>  drwxr-xr-x /
>  drwxr-xr-x usr
>  drwxr-xr-x lib
>  drwxr-xr-x xymon
>  drwxr-xr-x server
>  lrwxrwxrwx www -> /var/lib/xymon/www
>    drwxr-xr-x /
>    drwxr-xr-x var
>    drwxr-xr-x lib
>    drwxr-xr-x xymon
>    drwxrwxr-x www
>
>
> 2009/6/11 Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>:
>> index.html should be a softlink to bb.html
>>
>> Why those files aren't there after an RPM install is beyond me, but my
>> guess
>> is a permissions issue at this point.
>>
>> Do a namei -m /usr/lib/xymon/server/www
>>
>> Josh Luthman
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>> "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
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>> --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Paul Ward <pnward at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Yes the services are running but I can not find the index.html.
>>>
>>> [root at unix xymon]# ps -ef | grep xymon
>>> xymon    25636     1  0 08:41 ?        00:00:00
>>> /usr/lib/xymon/server/bin/hobbitlaunch
>>> --config=/usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg
>>> --env=/usr/lib/xymon/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
>>> --log=/var/log/xymon/hobbitlaunch.log
>>> --pidfile=/var/log/xymon/hobbitlaunch.pid
>>> xymon    25637 25636  0 08:41 ?        00:00:00 hobbitd
>>> --pidfile=/var/log/xymon/hobbitd.pid
>>> --restart=/usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk
>>> --checkpoint-file=/usr/lib/xymon/server/tmp/hobbitd.chk
>>> --checkpoint-interval=600 --log=/var/log/xymon/hobbitd.log
>>> --admin-senders=127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 --store-clientlogs=!msgs
>>> root     25699 18362  0 08:48 pts/1    00:00:00 grep xymon
>>>
>>> [root at unix xymon]# links --dump 127.0.0.1/xymon
>>>                                Index of /xymon
>>>
>>>  Icon Name                    Last modified      Size  Description
>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>  [DIR] Parent Directory                             -
>>>  [DIR] gifs/                   05-Dec-2009 16:28    -
>>>  [DIR] help/                   05-Dec-2009 16:28    -
>>>  [DIR] menu/                   05-Dec-2009 16:28    -
>>>  [DIR] notes/                  26-Feb-2009 03:43    -
>>>  [DIR] rep/                    26-Feb-2009 03:43    -
>>>  [DIR] snap/                   26-Feb-2009 03:43    -
>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>    Apache/2.0.46 (Red Hat) Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80
>>>
>>>
>>> 2009/6/10 Buchan Milne <bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net>:
>>> > On Wednesday 10 June 2009 06:55:24 Paul Ward wrote:
>>> >> Hi,
>>> >>
>>> >> I am kicking myself for not knowng this but I'll ask anyway.
>>> >>
>>> >> Just completed an install of xymon on rhel3, no problems. I choose to
>>> >> use the el3 xymon rpm.
>>> >>
>>> >> After it installed I tried to access the web page via
>>> >> http://localhost/xymon but I can only see the directories not the web
>>> >> page.
>>> >>
>>> >> what am I not doing.
>>> >>
>>> >> Successfull install --->
>>> >> rpm -ivh xymon-4.2.3-1.rhel3.i386.rpm
>>> >> xymon-client-4.2.3-1.rhel3.i386.rpm
>>> >> warning: xymon-4.2.3-1.rhel3.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
>>> >> 60d204a7 Preparing...
>>> >> ########################################### [100%] Adding user xymon
>>> >> to
>>> >> group adm
>>> >>    1:xymon-client
>>> >> ###########################################
>>> >> [
>>> >> 50%] 2:xymon
>>> >>  ###########################################
>>> >> [100%]
>>> >
>>> > At this point, you should start xymon with:
>>> > # service xymon start
>>> > or similar
>>> >
>>> >> web page for localhost/xymon --->
>>> >
>>> > bb.html, index.html etc. are created by the bbgen task of xymon ... and
>>> > those
>>> > only run if hobbitlaunch is running, which is (ultimately) started by
>>> > the
>>> > /etc/init.d/xymon script.
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> > Buchan
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
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