......

7. service httpd start Starting httpd: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 172.20.10.5 for ServerName [  OK  ]

8. From Josh Luthman's advice:

    A sample Apache configuration is in /home/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf That goes in your httpd.conf

9. Saved file before modifying it cd /etc/httpd/conf cp -p httpd.conf httpd.conf.ORIG

10. Appended contents of file: /home/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf to the bottom of file: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

11. Restarted apache (service httpd restart)

12. Started xymon: /home/xymon/server/bin/xymon.sh start Xymon started

13. http://centos_hp0/xymon or http://172.20.10.5/xymon

    Forbidden

    You don't have permission to access /xymon on this server. Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS) Server at 172.20.10.5 Port 80

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To: Kern Doe <kern_doe at yahoo.com> Cc: Adrian Ball <ade at hp5.co.uk>; "xymon at xymon.com" <xymon at xymon.com>; "cleaver at terabithia.org" <cleaver at terabithia.org>; "bferrell at baywinds.org" <bferrell at baywinds.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 3:40 PM Subject: Re: [Xymon] First time installed, and set up xymon, failed, NEED helps please.

    A sample Apache configuration is in /home/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf That goes in your httpd.conf

Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Kern Doe <kern_doe at yahoo.com> wrote:

Hello, I've reinstalled xymon with following steps:1) unpack the downloaded xymon binary version 4.3.28 in /tmp        (as root) 2) run configure script                            (as root) A few info to note: used mostly default values including group-ID=nobody IP-address of this host = 172.20.10.5

3. run: make                                (as root)

4. run: make install                            (as root)

5. Notes from xymon after the installation You must configure your webserver for the Xymon webpages and CGI-scripts. A sample Apache configuration is in /home/xymon/server/etc/xymon- apache.conf If you have your Administration CGI scripts in a separate directory, then you must also setup the password-file with the htpasswd command.

    To start Xymon, as the xymon user run '/home/xymon/server/bin/xymon. sh start' To view the Xymon webpages, go to http://centos_hp0/xymon

 I'm kind of pausing at "You must configure your webserver for the Xymon webpages and CGI-scripts"... Any additional help is greatly appreciated.Kern -- Let's go GreenThis email contains 100% recycled electrons.

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I thank to everyone who has replied to my email, if I miss anyone, I do apologize. Ok, so I've got super confused and you know what, I'm going to start everything all over fresh and clean -- that way, I can document it as I go along. I will do followings:1) shutdown xymon, and apache 2) I will even remove xymon ID and recreate it.3) keep /etc/hosts.cfg        cat /etc/hosts.cfg                172.20.10.5   centos_hp0      # bbd http://centos_hp0/ 4) remove xymon's stuff in /etc/httpd/conf.d5) keep my test file for testing apache: /var/www/html/index.html cat index.html Welcome to Kern's webserver (sorry, I'm a real novice with apache since I'm a DBA)

6. anything else should I do as parts of trying to uninstall xymon, then reinstall? Thank you!!Kern --

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From: Adrian Ball <ade at hp5.co.uk> To: xymon at xymon.com Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 6:19 AM Subject: Re: [Xymon] First time installed, and set up xymon, failed, NEED helps please.

Looks more like an Apache config problem than Xymon. Do you have FollowSymLinks set?e.g.DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"<Directory "/var/www/html"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory>Then I would take a look at the apache error log, it's usually pretty helpful in pointing out what the problem is.— Adrian Ball || ade at hp5.co.uk|| http://www.hp5.co.uk/Tel: 01629 822886 || Yahoo/AIM/MSN: adeatwollaton Mobile: 07539 623647 || http://www.facebook.com/ adrian.ball3______________________________ _________________ Xymon mailing list Xymon at xymon.com http://lists.xymon.com/ mailman/listinfo/xymon

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That looks right, Stephen,

You *DO NOT* want to replace /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf with the xymon config like you did! You need to do an Include or copy the configuration within it.

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On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Stephen Carville <scarville at lereta.com> wrote:

All I had to do was add this line to httpd.conf:

Include /var/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf

Then restarted httpd.

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Kern Doe <kern_doe at yahoo.com> wrote:

...

Hello, I've reinstalled xymon with following steps:

1. unpack the downloaded xymon binary version 4.3.28 in /tmp (as root)

2. run configure script (as root) A few info to note: used mostly default values including group-ID=nobody IP-address of this host = 172.20.10.5

3. run: make (as root)

4. run: make install (as root)

5. Notes from xymon after the installation You must configure your webserver for the Xymon webpages and CGI-scripts. A sample Apache configuration is in /home/xymon/server/etc/xymon- apache.conf If you have your Administration CGI scripts in a separate directory, then you must also setup the password-file with the htpasswd command.

   To start Xymon, as the xymon user run '/home/xymon/server/bin/xymon. sh start' To view the Xymon webpages, go to http://centos_hp0/xymon

I'm kind of pausing at "You must configure your webserver for the Xymon

...

webpages and CGI-scripts"... Any additional help is greatly appreciated. Kern --

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On 09/27/2017 01:43 PM, Kern Doe wrote:

OK, so I included xymon-apache.conf in file httpd.conf: head -5 /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf    include /home/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf # # This is the main Apache server configuration file.  It contains the # configuration directives that give the server its instructions. # See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/> for detailed information.

It is usually better to put Include directives at the end of httpd.conf:

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I missed some of this thread, but don’t I remember that this is CentOS 6?

In that case, you should just put the xymon-apache.conf file in /etc/httpd/conf.d

Otherwise, if that’s not possible, for this error, this sounds like root can’t get to th /home/xymon/server/etc directory, or that file. Permissions, possibly selinux? Are you running selinux?

From: Kern Doe [mailto:kern_doe at yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 4:07 PM To: Stephen Carville; xymon at xymon.com Subject: Re: [Xymon] First time installed, and set up xymon, failed, NEED helps please.

OK, I put it at the end of httpd.conf file, still failed: Starting httpd: httpd: Syntax error on line 1137 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Could not open configuration file /home/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf: Permission denied [FAILED]

I put a copy of xymon-apache.conf in /tmp, it also failed me: Starting httpd: httpd: Syntax error on line 1137 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Could not open configuration file /tmp/xymon-apache.conf: Permission denied [FAILED]

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From: Stephen Carville <scarville at lereta.com<mailto:scarville at lereta.com>> To: "xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>" <xymon at xymon.com<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [Xymon] First time installed, and set up xymon, failed, NEED helps please.

On 09/27/2017 01:43 PM, Kern Doe wrote:

OK, so I included xymon-apache.conf in file httpd.conf: head -5 /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf include /home/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf # # This is the main Apache server configuration file. It contains the # configuration directives that give the server its instructions. # See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/> for detailed information.

It is usually better to put Include directives at the end of httpd.conf:

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