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

["White, Bruce" <bewhite (at) fellowes.com>]

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/

Josh Luthman
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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