[Xymon] Issues logging into Xymon after new install Ubuntu 16.04

[Jeremy Laidman]

Thanks for the update. This is likely to help others.

I'm guessing your Xymon log files continue to have errors?

The README.debian file contains this helpful tip (Ubuntu is based on
Debian):

- Access to the monitoring website is restricted to localhost by default.
  Edit /etc/apache2/conf-available/xymon to change this.


Hindsight...

On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 at 06:57, mdeal5 at juno.com <mdeal5 at juno.com> wrote:

> Just in the hopes of saving someone else the arduous journey that I went
> through.  This turned out to be a permissions error.
>
> So.  With Xymon 4.3.25 running on Ubuntu 16.04 server with Apache2 2.4.18,
> I was able to fix the 403 Forbidden error by editing the
> /etc/apache2/conf-available/xymon.cfg  file and replacing every instance of
> Require local with  Require all granted.  After a restart of the apache2
> server, and a restart of xymon, just to be on the safe side, everything
> worked out fine.
>
> The primary issue for me was that the xymon log files had errors, but
> following those errors never led me in the direction of determining that
> they were caused by permissions being used by Apache.
>
> If I had any hair, I'd have pulled it out by now.
>
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