new install linux

[mr.bill]

im new to cacti and linux
i follow the instructions
installation HOW-TO For linux

when i try to point my web browser to http://localhost/cacti
it tries to download a file type: application/xhttpd-php

any suggestions

[mr.bill]

any help?

[gandalf]

i follow the instructions
installation HOW-TO For linux

Which ones? Official docu is found at http://docs.cacti.net along with a lot of HowTos and Walkthroughs
Reinhard

[mr.bill]

this one


http://www.cacti.net/downloads/docs/con ... How-To.pdf

[icewalker]

Mr Bill,

What linux distro are you running? I have cacti working on both Ubuntu 8.04 and RHEL 5.

The biggest things you need are the snmp tools and php. I'll help out as much as I can once we know your distro (especially one of the two above).

james

[mr.bill]

i am running red hat 9. but i can use another one if i need to.

[mr.bill]

i am using these iinstructions

http://www.cacti.net/downloads/docs/con ... How-To.pdf

[icewalker]

Holy Old Distro Batman! I haven't seen RedHat 9 in over 7 years.

If I might suggest, CentOS is a good alternative if you wish to stay with an RPM based distro in the vein of Red Hat 9. It is basically a RedHat clone and CentOS 5.2 should be the latest version available. Though I'm pretty sure RedHat is coming out with a 5.3 release soon, which means CentOS will also be updated shortly afterwards. The big difference, one is free!!!

http://www.centos.org/

If you are feeling "froggy", try Ubuntu or Fedora. Fedora is the bleeding edge of RedHat's code base. You may even be able to install cacti directly from Fedora which will satisfy many of the dependencies you are probably missing with RedHat 9.

http://www.fedoraproject.org
http://www.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu is an entirely different distribution that is based on Debian. I still prefer Debian's package management over Fedora/RH5's package management. But that is just my opinion which won't be discussed here.

Needless to say, RedHat 9 is probably the biggest problem you are having with cacti. It's just very very old and I doubt you will get php to work properly enough for cacti. No doubt, somebody here probably has gotten it to work though.

If you reinstall, feel free to let me know. It's not difficult to get cacti up and running on a machine once you have the right system packages in place.

James

[mr.bill]

thanks for your reply i will try to download fedora and centOS