[smokeping-users] smokeping2.6.11 -- 500 internal server error

[Christian Vo]

thanks for the tip,
adjusting SEL resolved my issue!

much appreciated

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Gregory Sloop <gregs at sloop.net> wrote:

>  1) Set SEL to permissive or disable. [At least for testing.]
> (I'm not sure what you did about SEL, but do the above if you haven't
> already.)
>
> 2) Who owns/has permissions for the CGI? root only? Make sure Apache can
> serve it. [i.e. has permissions.]
>
> Watching/reviewing the log files for Apache, and/or the debug output from
> smokeping is almost always quite useful. [And if you can't find what's
> wrong after doing so, that's the next thing I'd ask you for...]
>
> Your problem, while not related to RRD read/writes [the typical problem
> for most people], still looks like a permissions issue to me - but the
> apache logs should tell you something.
>
> Also, see the general FAQ that solves most problems:
> https://github.com/oetiker/SmokePing/wiki/FAQ
>
> Once you have a base setup working, then you can turn SEL back on, if you
> like.
>
> -Greg
>
>
>  thx,
> I tried that and also ran through the steps posted on
> http://www.wedebugyou.com/2012/11/how-to-install-and-configure-smokeping-on-centos-6/
>
> at this point this is the error that now pops up in the logs:
>
>
> (104)Connection reset by peer: mod_fcgid: error reading data from FastCGI
> server
> Premature end of script headers: smokeping.fcgi
>
> has anyone seen this?  thx
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Joseph Kieffer <joseph.kieffer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> I ran into this as well and found that it was SELinux blocking http
> connections. I stopped running the server I had this issue with but I have
> a note that I used "setbool httpd_can_network_connect=1" to fix this for my
> install.
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015, 1:31 PM Christian Vo <christian.vo at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi all,
> ,
> this is a new install of smokeping2.6.11 on centos6.6
>
> compilation and installation ran fine without any issues.
>
> the smokeping process itself is running...
>
> however  all attempts to access  the url
>  (http:<webserver>/smokeping/smokeping.cgi) errors out and apache error log
> shows the following
>
> (13)Permission denied: exec of '/opt/smokeping/htdocs
> /smokeping.fcgi' failed
>
> Premature end of script headers: smokeping.fcgi
>
>
> I'm stuck here, not sure where else to look.
>
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