RE: [hobbit] NooB questions - Status not Available

["Hobbit User" <hobbit (at) epperson.homelinux.net>]

On Thu, October 4, 2007 18:12, McIlrath, Paul wrote:
> Ok, I got rid of the rpm install and started over.
>
> I downloaded the latest hobbit binary and freetyp2, libart, libpng and
> rrdtool binaries and started from scratch.
>
> Everything is installed and I used the hobbit-apache.conf example created
> by the install to configure apache.
>
> Fired it all up, and hobbit seemed to be running fine...but when I click
> on any link, I get a strange error that says Internet Explorer (or
> Firefox) cannot download the file....instead of following the link to the
> details page for that test. I get the same thing with reports, trends,
> etc, etc. Only non-green seems to be working.
>
> Im pretty sure that it has to be something to do with cgi-bin or seccgi,
> so Im poring over my httpd.conf file line by line to see if something
> somewhere is conflicting with the example setup from the hobbit install
> (pasted into the bottom of my httpd.conf).
>
> Has anyone seen this before?

Make sure _everything_ in the cgi-bin directory is executable.  I've found
on many platforms Apache will not execute any of the objects if even one
of them is non-executable.
chmod -R 755 /usr/libexec/hobbit/cgi-bin

May not be your problem, but that's fixed similar ones for me.