[smokeping-users] Smokeping daemonizes but can't browse on web

[Josh Luthman]

Looks to me like you put the files in /var/www/html and not
/var/www/cgi-bin.  I am using CentOS myself and I have it as:

/var/www/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi

I use the URL host/cgi-bin/smokeping.cgi

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On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Eric Chatham <echatham at broadvox.net>wrote:

> Sorry, about lack of info.
>
> Here are my Apache logfiles:
>
> [root at happv etc]# tail /var/log/httpd/error_log
>
> [Wed Nov 19 23:17:22 2008] [error] [client 192.168.1.101] Directory index
> forbidden by Options directive: /var/www/html/
> [Wed Nov 19 23:17:30 2008] [error] [client 192.168.1.101] File does not
> exist: /var/www/html/smokeping
> [Wed Nov 19 23:19:07 2008] [error] [client 192.168.1.101] File does not
> exist: /var/www/html/smokeping.cgi
> [Thu Nov 20 04:02:19 2008] [notice] SIGHUP received.  Attempting to restart
> [Thu Nov 20 04:02:20 2008] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest
> authentication ...
> [Thu Nov 20 04:02:20 2008] [notice] Digest: done
> [Thu Nov 20 04:02:20 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) configured --
> resuming
>  normal operations
> [Thu Nov 20 10:57:38 2008] [error] [client 192.168.1.101] File does not
> exist: /var/www/html/smokeping.cgi
> [Thu Nov 20 10:57:39 2008] [error] [client 192.168.1.101] File does not
> exist: /var/www/html/smokeping.cgi
> [Thu Nov 20 10:57:44 2008] [error] [client 192.168.1.101] File does not
> exist: /var/www/html/smokeping
>
> -----
> [root at happv etc]# tail /var/log/httpd/access_log
>
> 192.168.1.101 - - [20/Nov/2008:10:57:38 -0500] "GET /smokeping.cgi
> HTTP/1.1" 404
>  295 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17)
> Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17"
> 192.168.1.101 - - [20/Nov/2008:10:57:39 -0500] "GET /smokeping.cgi
> HTTP/1.1" 404
>  295 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17)
> Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17"
> 192.168.1.101 - - [20/Nov/2008:10:57:44 -0500] "GET /smokeping HTTP/1.1"
> 404 291
>  "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17)
> Gecko/20080829 Firefox/2.0.0.17"
>
> My linux server is Happv.proxima.local [192.168.1.105].  I haven't made
> any custom settings to my Apache.  I am trying to open the page with Mozilla
> Firefox.  I get "Error 404, Not found."  The smokeping.cgi page does not
> reference the cgi-bin directory [as per instructions setting up Smokeping].
>  I try to access the link
> http://happv.proxima.local/smokeping/smokeping.cgi.  I get "Error 404."
> However, when I type in http://happv.proxima.local/, the default Apache
> page displays.
>
> This is the same way I have it setup in the ./etc/config file.  Do you need
> to see my config file?
>
> Thank you,
> ERiC
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Eric Chatham wrote:
>
> > I am having a problem with apache and setting up my smokeping.  I
> > can't browse to smokeping.cgi with the web browser.  What could be
> > wrong?  The smokeping daemonizes properly, but I'm unable to see the
> > page; here is a debug session.  I only have one target setup:
> >
> > [root at happv etc]# ../bin/smokeping --debug ### Compiling alert
> > detector pattern 'someloss'
> > [snip]
>
> You don't send enough information for anyone to help you.  The debug output
> you sent is from the somkeping process but you really need to look at the
> log(s) from your Apache process(es).  It would also be helpful to see
> exactly how your Apache is configured, exactly what you do when you attempt
> to browse to the smokeping Web page, and exactly what response you get.
>  From the information you sent, "can't browse"
> might easily mean that the URL you gave to the browser was incorrect.
>
> --
>
> 73,
> Ged.
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