[hobbit] Need help. Hobbit installed, but web access fails.

[Ming Qian]

Hello Bruce,

What group-ID does your webserver use [nobody] ?
apache

xymon:x:50108:50108::/home/xymon:/bin/bash

thanks.

Bruce



On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:32 PM, White, Bruce <bewhite at fellowes.com> wrote:

>  Did you input the correct User/Group for the web user when you
> configured/installed Xymon?
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Ming Qian [mailto:childpsych.columbia at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, January 29, 2010 2:57 PM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Need help. Hobbit installed, but web access fails.
>
>
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> I tried like  http://192.168.1.50/xymon/
> But
> /var/log/httpd/error_log said:
>
> [Fri Jan 29 15:55:22 2010] [error] [client 192.168.71.55] (13)Permission
> denied: access to /xymon/ denied
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> Bruce
>
>  On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Josh Luthman <
> josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>
> Two arguing things in your email:
>
>
>
> Alias /xymon/  "/home/xymon/server/www/"
>
> [Fri Jan 29 15:01:20 2010] [error] [client 192.168.71.55] File does not
> exist: /var/www/html/xymon
>
> I think your trying http://192.168.1.50/xymon
>
> you should be trying http://192.168.1.50/xymon/
>
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>
>
>  On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Ming Qian <qianm at childpsych.columbia.edu>
> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I installed xymon on my redhat linux. The installation is successful, but
> the web access failed.
>
> Here is information:
>
>
> [root at pons /home]# ll | grep xymon
> drwxr-xr-x   8 xymon    xymon    4096 Jan 28 16:44 xymon
> [root at pons /home]# cd xymon/
> [root at pons /home/xymon]# ll
> total 40
> drwxr-xr-x   2 xymon xymon 4096 Jan 28 16:39 cgi-bin
> drwxr-xr-x   2 xymon xymon 4096 Jan 28 16:39 cgi-secure
> drwxr-xr-x   7 xymon root  4096 Jan 28 16:39 client
> drwxr-xr-x  10 xymon xymon 4096 Jan 28 16:39 data
> drwxr-xr-x   9 xymon xymon 4096 Jan 28 16:39 server
>
>
> [root at pons /home/xymon]# uname -a
> Linux pons 2.6.9-67.0.4.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Jan 18 05:00:00 EST 2008 x86_64
> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
> [root at pons /etc/httpd/conf.d]# pwd
> /etc/httpd/conf.d
> [root at pons /etc/httpd/conf.d]# ls
> hobbit-apache.conf  perl.conf  php.conf  python.conf  README  ssl.conf
> webalizer.conf  welcome.conf
> [root at pons /etc/httpd/conf.d]#
>
>
> # This file is for Apache 1.3.x and Apache 2.0.x
> #
> # Add this to your Apache configuration, it makes
> # the Xymon webpages and cgi-scripts available in the
> # "/xymon" and "/xymon-cgi" URLs.
>
>
> # NB: The "Alias" line below must NOT be used if you have
> #     the Xymon webfiles as the root URL. In that case,
> #     you should instead set this:
> #
> #DocumentRoot "/home/xymon/server/www"
>
> Alias /xymon/  "/home/xymon/server/www/"
> <Directory "/home/xymon/server/www">
>     Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes MultiViews
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> ScriptAlias /xymon-cgi/ "/home/xymon/cgi-bin/"
> <Directory "/home/xymon/cgi-bin">
>     AllowOverride None
>     Options ExecCGI Includes
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
> </Directory>
>
> ScriptAlias /xymon-seccgi/ "/home/xymon/cgi-secure/"
> <Directory "/home/xymon/cgi-secure">
>     AllowOverride None
>     Options ExecCGI Includes
>     Order allow,deny
>     Allow from all
>
>     # Password file where users with access to these scripts are kept.
>     # Create it with "htpasswd -c /home/xymon/server/etc/hobbitpasswd
> USERNAME"
>     # Add more users / change passwords with "htpasswd
> /home/xymon/server/etc/hobbitpasswd USERNAME"
>     #
>     # You can also use a group file to restrict admin access to members of
> a
>     # group, instead of anyone who is logged in. In that case you must
> setup
>     # the "hobbitgroups" file, and change the "Require" settings to require
>     # a specific group membership. See the Apache docs for more details.
>
>     AuthUserFile /home/xymon/server/etc/hobbitpasswd
>     AuthGroupFile /home/xymon/server/etc/hobbitgroups
>     AuthType Basic
>     AuthName "Xymon Administration"
>
>     # "valid-user" restricts access to anyone who is logged in.
>     Require valid-user
>
>     # "group admins" restricts access to users who have logged in, AND
>     # are members of the "admins" group in hobbitgroups.
>     # Require group admins
>
> </Directory>
>
>
>
>
> And,
>
> the httpd log shows:
>
> [Fri Jan 29 15:01:20 2010] [error] [client 192.168.71.55] File does not
> exist: /var/www/html/xymon
>
>
>
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Best,
> Ming
>
>
>
>
>
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