Cannot Export Graphs - System Path

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APseudoUtopia
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Cannot Export Graphs - System Path

Post by APseudoUtopia »

Hello.

I just finished setting up Cacti and creating some graphs. I then setup a local export in order to display them on a website. However, I'm getting the following error:

EXPORT FATAL ERROR: Export path '/usr/local/www/main/graphs' is within a system path '/usr'. Can not continue.

Well, it just so happens that /usr/local/www is the path that apache uses on FreeBSD. Is there a setting to skip this check? If not, where is the check located? I would like to commit it out of the code.

Thank you.
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It's in lib/graph_export.php. Although you might want to get the branches/0.8.7 version fo this file from SVN. The release version is buggy. The check is there due to the sanitization step. It can be very agressive.

I would suggest you export ot a different location and then create a symbolic link from the location to the location in /usr.

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Post by APseudoUtopia »

Alrighty. I'll look into the svn version of it.

Thanks again for the quick reply.
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