[smokeping-users] Problem finding the HTDocs file

Wed Sep 25 15:35:02 CEST 2013

Hey! Np, the community is strong! Very glad you made it this fast, just let me know if cropper is working. If you get to the single graph level (not at the summary pages) you should get a cross if you put your mouse over the graph, allowing you to select an area for graphical zoom in.

If you don’t have it, you need to correct the relative references like I mentioned (if you figure out they are referring to your web root dir as / and your smokeping web location as relative path, you should be able to make it work).

Maybe it’s already where it’s supposed to be.

All you would need to check after that is if the startup scripts are working correctly ( I still need to do some work on that).

Cheers!

Ioannis

From: Will Brocklebank [mailto:will at facetofacedigital.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 4:29 PM
To: Theodoridis Ioannis
Cc: ok.aless at gmail.com; smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] Problem finding the HTDocs file

Dear Ioannis

Very kind of you to chime in and to give such detailed feedback. With Alessandro's help I am up and running. Well done on getting auth for the 15 Pis!

W

On 25 Sep 2013, at 14:26, <ITheodoridis at bankofgreece.gr> wrote:

Hello Will!

The contents of the htdocs dir are normally the cgi and fcgi files plus the cropper directory which is a javascript for zooming in your graph pages. I will not get into that right now.

Leave your basepage.html where you found it. There is no need to change its location.

What you do need is make sure the reference in the config file is correct (it’s a little lower than the rest of the filepaths in the smokeping config file).

Since you installed the package (instead of compiling yourself) I would expect all the file references in the config to be correct. Just check to make sure.

The place where you will be copying the cropper directory is a matter of choice. You can choose to copy it in the webroot directory (probably /var/www/ in that case) or under the smokeping web directory (check your config file to see where that is). There is a cross reference for cropper in the basepage.html file so what you do needs to reflect that. There are absolute references and relative references for that and the graphs in the config and the basepage.html so you need to be careful there. I don’t remember those by heart so get started with the main smokeping features and we can work out cropper later if you still have problems. You will probably go through graph creation issues first (usually file rights issues) before you run into those.

The cgi files usually go in a separate folder than the rest of the web documents (for example the cropper dir or the smokeping graph images and data). That depends on the distro used. I can’t remember by heart where it is for Debian (rasbian in this case) but it could be under /usr/lib.

Check those to start with and get back to us for more.

If you keep running into trouble I may try to reproduce your setup to provide accurate help (I just got my PI back).

Good luck and keep it up!

On a personal note let me tell you all that finally my institution approved the purchase of 15 PIs for dispatchable smokeping slaves so I expect to get started on that project sometime in the near feature!

Best Regards,

Ioannis.

From: Alessandro Palermo [mailto:ok.aless at gmail.com <http://gmail.com> ] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 3:01 PM
To: Will Brocklebank
Cc: smokeping-users
Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] Problem finding the HTDocs file

All configuration files are in /etc/smokeping/

The html base is basepage.html

The /etc/smokeping/config.d/ contains the Target, Probes and Alert files.

Regards

On 25 September 2013 08:22, Will Brocklebank <will at facetofacedigital.com <mailto:will at facetofacedigital.com> > wrote:

Dear all - I am an enthusiastic noob so please forgive any inexperienced foolishness ;-)

I have progressed through the installation procedure on Raspbian and all seems to be running smoothly.

However, I have hit a problem with firing up the actual web interface. Specifically I do not understand these instructions:

"There is a sample htdocs directory in your smokeping installation root. Copy its content to the place where your webserver expects its files. There are also two sample cgi scripts showing how to launch the smokeping cgi in your website. The only difference is the file extension. Adjust the paths in the script and you should be ready to go."

I installed smokeping via apt-get on my Raspberry Pi and now I cannot find any htdocs directory either in the smokeping installation root (for clarity maybe someone could tell me exactly where this is so I can double-check but it isn't in /usr/etc/smokeping) and do not know how to move forward!

Thanks for all your help!

Will

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