[smokeping-users] SmokePing, Ubuntu, and Permission Errors

[David Tomic]

 >>When I navigate to http://localhost/smokeping I just get a directory 
listing like below there are not any .htm files that I would expect.

That's actually perfectly normal.

You need to visit http://localhost/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi to bring up the 
proper page(s).

What I've done is just add a redirect for that address, so that anybody 
who tries to load <url>/smokeping is automatically redirected to the 
proper <url>/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi address.

To do that just add a blank index file to your /var/www/smokeping folder 
[which is also handy to stop people from just loading the raw directory 
listing], and then create a .htaccess file to redirect them to the 
proper address.

Redirect 301 /smokeping/index.php /cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi

Problem solved.

--David

Richey wrote:
>
> I am not worried so much about permissions. The box is behind a Pix 
> firewall and I am the only human that works off of that network. All 
> other employees are behind another firewall. I’ve messed with chown 
> for root and www-data and still no luck. When I navigate to 
> http://localhost/smokeping I just get a directory listing like below 
> there are not any .htm files that I would expect.
>
> Index of /smokeping
>
> Name Last modified Size Description
>
> ________________________________________
>
> Parent Directory
>
> - Media_mini.png 14-Apr-2008 09:18 11K
>
> rrdtool.png 14-Apr-2008 09:18 3.8K
>
> smokeping.png 14-Apr-2008 09:18 4.3K
>
> ________________________________________
>
> Apache/2.2.4 (Ubuntu) Server at 192.168.102.6 Port 80
>
> Richey
>
> *From:* Nathan Long [mailto:nathanlong at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, April 14, 2008 8:35 AM
> *To:* Richey
> *Subject:* Re: [smokeping-users] SmokePing, Ubuntu, and Permission Errors
>
> I had similar issues with Smokeping and Ubuntu. To fix the problem I 
> had to give ownership of the folder /var/lib/smokeping and rrd files 
> inside to root, and ownership of any slave_cache files (if you're 
> using slaves) to www-data. I'm not sure of the security risks involved 
> with this, but it's working for me.
>
> -Nate
>
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Richey <mylists at battleop.com 
> <mailto:mylists at battleop.com>> wrote:
>
> I am trying to get Smoke Ping running on Ubuntu 7.10 – Gutsy Gibbon with
> Apache2. I can't get the graphs to do anything. When I look at
> /var/log/messages it's full of:
>
> Apr 11 07:40:38 toybox4 smokeping[5565]: RRDs::update ERROR: opening
> '/var/lib/smokeping/Media.rrd': Permission denied
> Apr 11 07:40:38 toybox4 smokeping[5565]: RRDs::update ERROR: opening
> '/var/lib/smokeping/Local/LocalMachine.rrd': Permission denied
>
> Googleing, I found a post that says that you need to change the 
> ownership of
> the files in /var/lib/smokeping/* to apache. I think that ubuntu runs
> apache as www-data. So I have tried to change the ownership of the 
> files to
> both apache and www-data. I still get the same results. Are there maybe
> some files in other places that need a change of ownership or 
> permissions?
> I have also messed with the ownership of /usr/lib/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi.
>
> I've messed with this off and on for a few weeks. Ten minutes here ten
> there so I am sure I am over looking something simple.
>
> Richey
>
>
>
>
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