[smokeping-users] rename of smokeping.cgi into index.cgi

[G.W. Haywood]

Hi there,

On Wed, 6 Feb 2013, Kris De Rocker wrote:

> I've followed a nice (and working!) how-to to install smokeping on a CentOS system 
> (http://www.wedebugyou.com/2012/11/how-to-install-and-configure-smokeping-on-centos-6/)

Unofficial HOWTOs generally should be treated with suspicion.  They
are usually out of date and often wrong.

> At this moment, the smokeping URL is like http://ip/smokeping/smokeping.cgi
> Can i just do a rename of smokeping.cgi into index.cgi so that when i surf to 
> http://ip/smokeping it will be visible?  Or isn't that possible?

Don't do that.  Use the facilities which are made available by Apache:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_dir.html#directoryindex

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73,
Ged.