[Xymon] Keep getting 403 Forbidden on /xymon

[Mike Burger]

> You helped me figure out the problem.  When I configured xymon initially I
> wasn't sure which IP on this test box to use so I decided to set it to
> 0.0.0.0 thinking it would bind to all addresses.  Apparently that's not
> the
> case.  Once I changed the IP for XYMONSERVERIP in
> /usr/local/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg.  As soon as I made that
> change
> I'm able to get the xymon the xymon status page to come up.  What's
> interesting is the xymonlaunch.log file still shows it's listening on
> 0.0.0.0 even though I modified the xymonserver.cfg.
>
> 2013-12-10 08:24:13 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984
>
> Also, I went back to verify the original apache issue by putting the out
> of
> box xymon-apache.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d which still throws the 403
> errors.  Have to modify the Directory blocks like below:
>
> Comment/remove: Order allow, deny
>                            Allow from all
> Add:                    Require all granted
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Jeremy Laidman
> <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>wrote:
>
>> On 10 December 2013 09:39, Doug Strick <douglas.strick at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> xymonlaunch.log
>>>
>>
>>
>>> 2013-12-09 14:35:05 Cannot open directory
>>> /usr/local/xymon/server/etc/tasks.d
>>>
>>
>> Might want to create this directory, if only to silence this warning
>> message.  But this shouldn't stop Xymon from working.
>>
>>
>>> xymongen.log
>>> 2013-12-09 14:35:10 xymond status-board not available, code 0
>>> 2013-12-09 14:35:10 Failed to load current Xymon status, aborting
>>> page-update
>>>
>>
>> This is a warning sign.  It indicates that the xymongen process that
>> creates the web pages is unable to connect to the xymond daemon to find
>> the
>> status.  This connection takes place over TCP port 1984.  Can do do the
>> following:
>>
>> $ /usr/local/xymon/server/bin/xymoncmd
>> $ echo $XYMSERVERS
>>
>> This should show you how you have configured the Xymon server IP address
>> in xymonserver.cfg.  If it's not right, then different parts of Xymon
>> won't
>> be able to talk to the main xymond daemon.
>>
>> xymonclient.log
>>> df: '/run/user/1005/gvfs': Permission denied
>>> df: '/run/user/1005/gvfs': Permission denied
>>>
>>
>> Not sure what's going on here, but probably not going to break anything
>> major.
>>
>> /usr/local/xymon/client/local/README: line 1: This: command not found
>>> install: target 'run' is not a directory
>>> /usr/local/xymon/client/local/README: line 3: all: command not found
>>> /usr/local/xymon/client/local/README: line 4: output: command not found
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, this is a problem.  It's only an issue on the client side, so
>> should
>> not stop you seeing web pages.  But it needs to be fixed up if you want
>> to
>> be able to monitor your Xymon server.
>>
>> This appears to come from an attempt at executing a readme file.  Have a
>> look at the [xymonclient] section of
>> /usr/local/xymon/server/etc/tasks.cfg,
>> and confirm that the "CMD" parameter is
>> /usr/local/xymon/client/bin/xymonclient.sh.  If not, adjust this value.
>> If
>> it is, then check the xymonclient.sh script contents to see what the
>> heck
>> it's doing.  Perhaps run it manually (under xymoncmd) and see if you get
>> the same output.

Looks like I stand corrected. :-)