Xymon Digest, Vol 9, Issue 15
Hi Jeremy The reason I am using /opt/xymon is because I thought it would be a good idea to keep everything related to xymon inside /opt so that I will not have to look into different directories when I am looking for any xymon files.
Please see the outputs below. I excluded the commented lines that contained the words 'include' and 'Alias' from the outputs.
Output of:grep -i "alias" /etc/httpd/conf/*.conf
Alias /icons/ "/var/www/icons/" Alias /error/ "/var/www/error/" LoadModule authn_alias_module modules/mod_authn_alias.so LoadModule vhost_alias_module modules/mod_vhost_alias.so LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so Alias /icons/ "/var/www/icons/" ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/" Alias /error/ "/var/www/error/"
Output of: grep -i "include" /etc/httpd/conf/*.conf LoadModule include_module modules/mod_include.so Include conf.d/*.conf
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
<IfModule mod_include.c> Options IncludesNoExec AddOutputFilter Includes html
I will try what you suggested. I will remove the content of xymon-apache.conf from httpd.cond and then I will add an 'include' line in httpd.conf like this:
Include /opt/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf
I will try that and report back.
Many thanks Yanni
On October 18, 2011 at 2:35 AM Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:
Yanni
Your egrep output doesn't show the "Alias" line 1011 of httpd.conf. This is because my egrep was trying to be too clever and won't match "Alias" at the start of a line. The same would be true for "include" directives. Can you send what this shows:
grep -i "alias" /etc/httpd/conf/*.conf grep -i "include" /etc/httpd/conf/*.conf
Is there a reason why you're using "/opt/xymon" in your URL path instead of say "/xymon"? My Alias command looks like this:
Alias /xymon/ "/var/lib/xymon/www/"
I can't think why this would be a problem. Just a curiosity.
From what you have shown, it seems you have defined ScriptAlias twice: once in httpd.conf and once in xymon-apache.conf. You should remove all Xymon configuration from httpd.conf and instead let the settings in xymon-apache.conf be taken by Apache when it includes the file. You will have either "include *.conf" or "include xymon-apache.conf", and so you don't need to add anything into httpd.conf.
Cheers Jeremy
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Yanni <y.goudetsidis at mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi Jeremy
The reason I am using /opt/xymon is because I thought it would be a good idea to keep everything related to xymon inside /opt so that I will not have to look into different directories when I am looking for any xymon files.
This is a good reason to put the _files_ into /opt/xymon/. But URL part of the alias/scriptalias is different. For instance, you have this in your ScriptAlias line:
ScriptAlias /opt/xymon/xymon-cgi/ "/opt/xymon/cgi-bin/"
This means the URL to access the CGI scripts would be http://servername/opt/xymon/xymon-cgi/scriptname. The "/opt/xymon" part is not necessary, and I suspect that links within Xymon will not use it. Instead, you probably need to have this:
ScriptAlias /xymon-cgi/ "/opt/xymon/cgi-bin/"
In that way, the browser knows the URL path as /xymon-cgi/ but Apache translates this to /opt/xymon/cgi-bin/.
Please see the outputs below. I excluded the commented lines that contained the words 'include' and 'Alias' from the outputs.
Thanks, the comments wouldn't help.
The grep output shows no "Alias /xymon/". The first non-comment line in my xymon-apache.conf file defines this. I would imagine yours should have:
Alias /xymon/ "/opt/xymon/www/"
Include conf.d/*.conf
This confirms that any .conf file inside the conf.d directory will automatically get included in the config when Apache reloads. Good.
I will try what you suggested. I will remove the content of xymon-apache.conf from httpd.cond and then I will add an 'include' line in httpd.conf like this:
Include /opt/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf
No, don't add the include directive. After removing the configuration entries from httpd.conf, simply copy the file into conf.d. For example: cp /opt/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/
Don't forget to restart Apache.
Cheers Jeremy
Hi Jeremy First of all, let me know if you ever visit london and the beers are on me. I can see the initial xymon page :))) I can finally start adding hosts now and use it.
I removed the entries from the apache-config file and copied the xymon-apache.conf to etc/httpd/conf.d. Restarted apache then typed servername/xymon and it worked. When I copied xymon-apache.conf the file was already in /etc/httpd/conf.d because I was prompted to overwrite it. I don't know what I was doing wrong before. I guess I messed up the apache-config file and not knowing much about it I couldn't understand what was going on but since I am planning to use xymon I should find some apache information and try to understand what each line means and does. Thank you very much for your detailed explanation to my posts and for the HowTo's. Many thanks Yanni I removed entries from http.conf andNo, don't add the include directive. After removing the configuration
entries from httpd.conf, simply copy the file into conf.d. For example: cp /opt/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/
/etc/httpd/conf.d/
On October 20, 2011 at 6:39 AM Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Yanni <y.goudetsidis at mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi Jeremy
The reason I am using /opt/xymon is because I thought it would be a good idea to keep everything related to xymon inside /opt so that I will not have to look into different directories when I am looking for any xymon files.
This is a good reason to put the _files_ into /opt/xymon/. But URL part of the alias/scriptalias is different. For instance, you have this in your ScriptAlias line:
ScriptAlias /opt/xymon/xymon-cgi/ "/opt/xymon/cgi-bin/"
This means the URL to access the CGI scripts would be http://servername/opt/xymon/xymon-cgi/scriptname. The "/opt/xymon" part is not necessary, and I suspect that links within Xymon will not use it. Instead, you probably need to have this:
ScriptAlias /xymon-cgi/ "/opt/xymon/cgi-bin/"
In that way, the browser knows the URL path as /xymon-cgi/ but Apache translates this to /opt/xymon/cgi-bin/.
Please see the outputs below. I excluded the commented lines that contained the words 'include' and 'Alias' from the outputs.
Thanks, the comments wouldn't help.
The grep output shows no "Alias /xymon/". The first non-comment line in my xymon-apache.conf file defines this. I would imagine yours should have:
Alias /xymon/ "/opt/xymon/www/"
Include conf.d/*.conf
This confirms that any .conf file inside the conf.d directory will automatically get included in the config when Apache reloads. Good.
I will try what you suggested. I will remove the content of xymon-apache.conf from httpd.cond and then I will add an 'include' line in httpd.conf like this:
Include /opt/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf
No, don't add the include directive. After removing the configuration entries from httpd.conf, simply copy the file into conf.d. For example: cp /opt/xymon/server/etc/xymon-apache.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/
Don't forget to restart Apache.
Cheers Jeremy
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