[Xymon] First time installed, and set up xymon, failed, NEED helps please.

[Josh Luthman]

    A sample Apache configuration is in
/home/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf

That goes in your httpd.conf


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On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Kern Doe <kern_doe at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I've reinstalled xymon with following steps:
> 1) unpack the downloaded xymon binary version 4.3.28 in /tmp        (as
> root)
> 2) run configure script                            (as root)
>     A few info to note:
>         used mostly default values including
>             group-ID=nobody
>              IP-address of this host = 172.20.10.5
>
> 3) run: make                                (as root)
> 4) run: make install                            (as root)
>
> 5) Notes from xymon after the installation
>     You must configure your webserver for the Xymon webpages and
> CGI-scripts.
>     A sample Apache configuration is in /home/xymon/server/etc/xymon-
> apache.conf
>     If you have your Administration CGI scripts in a separate directory,
>     then you must also setup the password-file with the htpasswd command.
>
>     To start Xymon, as the xymon user run '/home/xymon/server/bin/xymon.sh
> start'
>     To view the Xymon webpages, go to http://centos_hp0/xymon
>
>  I'm kind of pausing at "You must configure your webserver for the Xymon
> webpages and CGI-scripts"...
>  Any additional help is greatly appreciated.
> Kern --
>
>
> *Let's go Green*
> *This email contains 100% recycled electrons.*
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Kern Doe via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com>
> *To:* Adrian Ball <ade at hp5.co.uk>; "xymon at xymon.com" <xymon at xymon.com>; "
> cleaver at terabithia.org" <cleaver at terabithia.org>; "
> josh at imaginenetworksllc.com" <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>; "
> bferrell at baywinds.org" <bferrell at baywinds.org>; "xymon at xymon.com" <
> xymon at xymon.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 27, 2017 1:12 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] First time installed, and set up xymon, failed,
> NEED helps please.
>
> I thank to everyone who has replied to my email, if I miss anyone, I do
> apologize.
>
> Ok, so I've got super confused and you know what, I'm going to start
> everything all over fresh and clean -- that way, I can document it as I go
> along. I will do followings:
> 1) shutdown xymon, and apache
> 2) I will even remove xymon ID and recreate it.
> 3) keep /etc/hosts.cfg
>         cat /etc/hosts.cfg
>                 172.20.10.5   centos_hp0      # bbd http://centos_hp0/
>
> 4) remove xymon's stuff in /etc/httpd/conf.d
> 5) keep my test file for testing apache: /var/www/html/index.html
>                     cat index.html
>                                     Welcome to Kern's webserver
>
>         (sorry, I'm a real novice with apache since I'm a DBA)
>
> 6) anything else should I do as parts of trying to uninstall xymon, then
> reinstall?
>
> Thank you!!
> Kern --
>
> *Let's go Green*
> *This email contains 100% recycled electrons.*
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Adrian Ball <ade at hp5.co.uk>
> *To:* xymon at xymon.com
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 27, 2017 6:19 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon] First time installed, and set up xymon, failed,
> NEED helps please.
>
> Looks more like an Apache config problem than Xymon. Do you have
> FollowSymLinks set?
> e.g.
>
> DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
>
> <Directory "/var/www/html">
>   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
>   AllowOverride None
>   Require all granted
> </Directory>
>
> Then I would take a look at the apache error log, it's usually pretty
> helpful in pointing out what the problem is.
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