Cacti Installation Problem

[jon]

Hi rax

i have got a question regarding installation of cacti, i have setup apache with php and mysql and its working allright.

I have followed the instructions in the documentation, and when i point my browser to http://your-server/cacti/index.php

a page with heading cacti installation guide opens up, but the next button at the bottom of the page does not take u anywhere, it basically points back to http://your-server/cacti/index.php and i cant proceed with the installation any further

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanking you in advance

JOn

[raX]

What version of PHP/Apache are you currently running?

It sounds like this may be a PHP configuration issue, check to make sure the following variables are set in your /etc/php.ini file:

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register_globals = On
register_argc_argv = On

Tell me how it works out. If not, there is an easy way that we can bypass the install screen.

-Ian

[meijerm]

Hi I am having the same problem.

I am using Apache/1.3.22 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/1.0.2 PHP/4.2.0 mod_perl/1.26

I did a fresh install of Cacti 0.6.7
Can you tell me what to do to bypass this

thanks in advance

Marco

[meijerm]

Hi I seem to have found the problem.

When I checked via PHPINFO() what were all my settings i saw that my php.ini was not read and also that it should be in /usr/local/lib (the default)

But when i put it there i still could not read it.

Then i chmod the php.ini to 777 and voila it worked

Hope it helps

[dale]

I'm stuck at the install page too.

My php.ini is 644 so that might not be the trouble.

I'm using:

apache 1.3.24
cacti 0.6.8
mysql 3.23.49
php 4.2.0

The apache, mysql, and php are all working
separately, but the cacti is not playing along.

Thanks for any help...

[raX]

To bypass the installation screen run the following query on the cacti database:

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update version set cacti="VERSION";

(Where 'version' is, replace it with your current version of cacti, 0.6.8 is the newest).

That should at least get you past the install screen, hopefully everything works beyond that.

-Ian

[dale]

Ian,

Thanks! I see the login screen now, but I can't
get past that with admin/admin as login/pw pair.

Please forgive me, I must be doing something else wrong.

Dale

To bypass the installation screen run the following query on the cacti database:

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update version set cacti="VERSION";

(Where 'version' is, replace it with your current version of cacti, 0.6.8 is the newest).

That should at least get you past the install screen, hopefully everything works beyond that.

-Ian

[raX]

When you say you can't get past the login screen, is it rejecting your password or is it just returning you to the login screen?

If it is rejecting your password, it could be a PASSWORD() function problem, I somehow doubt this is the case though.

You probably keep getting returned to the login screen. I assume this is a problem with cookies/PHP sessions. Do you have the following php.ini parameters set?

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session.use_cookies = 1
session.save_path = /tmp
session.cookie_path = /

These are just a few possibilies. However, if this does not work I can tell you how to completely disable cacti's built in authentication.

-Ian

[Cforsythe]

I couldn't get past the install.php so I made the database change, now the login screen just loops. The cookie variables are set as displayed in your example.

Thanks in advance,
Carl

[Guest]

Hi,

I allso have problems with the install screen.
I did the database change and now it loops the login screen.
Cookie variables are right.
What do I have to do now?

TIA
Lars

[Guest]

Okey Kids!

Can anyone help me?
Or is this board dead?

[raX]

Nope this board is still quite alive

Your problem definetely has to do with cookies in some form or another. Can you reproduce this problem on multiple machines? It could even be a browser setting.

If you still cannot get past the login screen, try running the query:

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update settings set value="" where name="global_auth";

That should at least turn off cacti's built in authentication and allow you to get into cacti.

-Ian

[Lasse]

Hi,

I have not yet tried it on any other machine, I will as soon as i am back at work.
If I do the sugested change in the Database, will cacti then be less secure?
If so, how do I "reverse" the query?

I live in M$ land with SQL server, so this is kinda new to me..

(I'm running cacti on FreeBSD v4.6-PRE)

[Lasse]

I'am back!

Now I've tested CACTI on a win2k server with IIS and PHP.
Same results there...
Forget my question about less security, I did the DB change and I was redirected to CACTI's user interface without any validation.
Added a user and set "global_auth" to "on". Same problem.
There is something that aint right ....
Client web browsers are MS IE 6.0

I'am tired, gooing to bed, ceya

//Lasse

[raX]

Your saying that even after setting 'global_auth' to 'on', you are still not getting a login screen? If so, I've never heard of that happening before. You did change the existing 'global_auth' value in the 'settings' table, and not add a new one, right?

-Ian