Help: After fresh install, Cacti page is not working

[slippryj71]

Hi team,

I recently installed Cacti by following this guide: https://computingforgeeks.com/install-a ... on-ubuntu/

Cactid is running:
● cactid.service - Cacti Daemon Main Poller Service
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/cactid.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2023-09-21 06:06:48 MDT; 23h ago
Main PID: 1214 (php)
Tasks: 4 (limit: 4450)
Memory: 35.6M
CPU: 11min 22.240s
CGroup: /system.slice/cactid.service
├─ 1214 php /var/www/html/cacti/cactid.php
├─38571 /usr/bin/php -q /var/www/html/cacti/poller.php --force
├─38574 sh -c "/usr/bin/rrdtool - "
└─38575 /usr/bin/rrdtool -

But when I try to load the Cacti page, I'm presented with php errors:
'; } else { print '
'; $file = $config['base_path'] . "/include/content/" . $page['contentfile']; if (file_exists($file)) { include_once($file); } else { print '
The file \'' . $page['contentfile'] . '\' does not exist!!
'; } print '
'; } } } } } render_external_links('FRONTTOP'); if (read_config_option('hide_console') != 'on') { ?> 1) {?>
Cacti. You can follow these basic steps to get started.', 'about.php');?>

Create devices for network', 'host.php');?>
Create graphs for your new devices', 'graphs_new.php');?>
View your new graphs', $config['url_path'] . 'graph_view.php');?>

Any suggestions where to start looking?

[macan]

try to clone again git clone -b 1.2.x https://github.com/Cacti/cacti.git and replace files or download version 1.2.25 directly from https://github.com/Cacti/cacti/releases

[slippryj71]

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I re-cloned from git and the problem persists.

[TheWitness]

Looks like you are attempting to open an External Link page that does not exist. Suggest you review that.

[TheWitness]

Or Apache has not been properly initializes. Put this file in the web root:

Code: Select all

vim phpinfo.php
<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Then save that file, and point your browser to: https://somehost/phpinfo.php

That page should render.

[slippryj71]

Yep, something is wrong. I get a blank page when trying that link on my cacti host. The Apache2 default page loads just fine, something good there. Thanks for the help, I'll poke around and see if I can figure out what's missing.

[macan]

check webserver and cacti logs

[TheWitness]

Yea, you web server is not setup correctly. It just working in RHEL and variants using our documentation. Also, works in Ubuntu/Debian following our installation instructions.