[smokeping-users] Re: problem with smokeping CGI

[Keith Redfield]

"Linux FAQ #1 : It's always permissions".
 
This sounds like an apache config problem, not a problem with smokeping. Unless you are running apache as suid root (a bad idea I hear), it might not be able to read all the data files - so find out what user apache is runnng under (usually 'apache') and chown/chgrp all the files to that uid. A simple test would be to create a small perl script like:
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#!/usr/bin/perl <---or wherever your perl is
 
print "Content-type text/html\n\n";
print "Hello World";
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chmod 774 it and call it 'test.cgi' and put it in the same dir as smokeping.cgi. If it works, you know apache can handle CGI's correctly, and so the permissions issue is the more likely candidate. 
 
Cheers,
 
-Keith
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From: smokeping-users-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch on behalf of benedict at kmun.gov.kw
Sent: Wed 12/1/2004 12:35 AM
To: smokeping-users at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [smokeping-users] problem with smokeping CGI




I am new to smoke and have recently installed it

OS linux Red Hat 8

smokeping 1.31
apache version httpd-2.0.40-8

i have installed and setup smokeping with the other required software but
now when I try to use the browser and try to open the smokeping.cgi

it says

Access forbiden

you dont have permission to acces the requested object it is either read
protected or not readable by the server

my imgcache directory is /var/www/html/smokecache and the permissions are
defult as i have created this directory as user root.

appreciate if you could help me

any other info required kindly let me know



thanks n regards















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