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I'm a big fan of FreeBSD and OpenBSD and would like to see if I can get Cacti to run under these, but I have a couple of questions:
a) is the linux compatibility required under FreeBSD to run Cacti?
b) does Cacti run under Apache 2.x ?
c) The libphp4.so seems to link closely with Apache 1.xx is there a way to use the static php4 enstead?
a) Linux compat is only required if you want to use the included scripts to return info on the local box because (to my knowledge) *BSD doesn't have all the /proc/* stuff that the included scripts use. For polling other devices, BSD is fine w/out compat.
b) I haven't tried Apache 2.0 but that's more a question of whether or not PHP will run, not so much Cacti. As I understand it, PHP runs under 2.0 but is much slower than 1.3.x. I'd stick with 1.3.x until 2.x matures a bit more and a PHP that's better optimised for it comes out.
c) I'm not sure what you mean by 'link closely' but you can build PHP statically or as a module. PHP doesn't care which. use --with-apxs to build as a module, --with-apache to build it in statically, or neither to build as a CGI.
McGinn-Combs wrote:
c) The libphp4.so seems to link closely with Apache 1.xx is there a way to use the static php4 enstead?
c) I'm not sure what you mean by 'link closely' but you can build PHP statically or as a module. PHP doesn't care which. use --with-apxs to build as a module, --with-apache to build it in statically, or neither to build as a CGI.
Hmmm... I guess what I meant was that I hadn't seen any method for using the PHP4 .so file available for OpenBSD with Apache2 at all. OK -- figured that one out. Don't use Apache2, stay with Apache1.x.x.
Also, I have found that the PHP build is important (imagine that! ). Installing on OpenBSD, I get a few choices for PHP: with MySQL or with SNMP or with LDAP and often without X11. Sigh -- much simpler to just build my own... particularly since there isn't a static version I've found available for OpenBSD.
But by and large, the package is working on OpenBSD and FreeBSD. I still have to incorporate the SNMP features, but that should be reasonably simple.
Personally, I prefer to hand-roll my Apache and PHP on any machine that's not Debian Linux (blatant plug). Debian seems to have just about everything available either as a module or statically compiled. Lots 'o packages. I haven't seen any other distro, BSD, or Solaris with so many pre-packaged builds (binaries, modules, whatever) so on anything else, I just roll my own.
). Installing on OpenBSD, I get a few choices for PHP: with MySQL or with SNMP or with LDAP and often without X11. Sigh -- much simpler to just build my own... particularly since there isn't a static version I've found available for OpenBSD.