Current Installation Manual???

Lance · Post by **Lance** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 11:30 am

Does anyone know of a URL where someone has placed a relatively current Cacti et al installation guide for the windows environment? The installation guide on the website is not up to date and cannot be used to successfully install a working instance of cacti.

BSOD2600 · Post by **BSOD2600** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:28 pm

this? http://bsod2600.home.comcast.net/install_windows.html

Post by **rony** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:38 pm

BSOD is good..

We will be intergrating it..

BSOD2600 · Post by **BSOD2600** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 12:57 pm

I suppose if I was really thorough, I'd install a clean server (VMware to the rescue) and follow the install instructions step by step to see if they truly do work. I wonder how much extra info I should put in there about tweaking stuff...

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:55 pm

the whole install works great for me until I get to this step:

C:\mysql\bin>mysql --user=root --password cacti < c:\apache2\Apache2\htdocs\cact
i\cacti.sql
The system cannot find the path specified.

If I do a search on my filesystem, I don't even see a cacti.sql file

I've downloaded all the most recent versions of apps, and it's a fresh install, on a newly built machine
any ideas?

BSOD2600 · Post by **BSOD2600** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:07 pm

cacti.sql comes with Cacti. I suggest you take a look in you cacti directory and/or redownload the cacti package.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:14 pm

BSOD2600 wrote:cacti.sql comes with Cacti. I suggest you take a look in you cacti directory and/or redownload the cacti package.

YOu're missing the point

If you need to do something with Cacti before this step, it should be in the instructions no?

as it is, you can NOT get a working Cacti following the step by step instructions

BSOD2600 · Post by **BSOD2600** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:58 pm

Umm, sure. One needs to extract the cacti zip file in order to get the cacti.sql file. If one doesn't know what to do with a zip file, they should NOT be using cacti. Yes, you're right the install instructions don't explicitly state that.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 9:31 pm

extracting the zip file doesn't magically move the cacti.sql file into the apache directory

BSOD2600 · Post by **BSOD2600** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 9:40 pm

The install instructions assumes one has installed cacti to c:\apache2\htdocs\cacti (being that c:\apache2\htdocs\ is the default location for Apache). This is why the command mysql --user=root --password cacti < c:\apache2\htdocs\cacti\cacti.sql is present. yes, it should be changed to something more generic.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:01 pm

well, either that, or just change the order of the instructions so that step is done after cacti being extracted

BSOD2600 · Post by **BSOD2600** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:20 pm

Alright, I updated the (suggested) windows documentation on my site, which now has all the software installed before hand, then the configuration comes later. That might make it more confusing for some.... so don't know it's a good idea.

BSOD2600 · Post by **BSOD2600** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 12:33 am

The documentation on my site should be now fully functional if you follow it step by step. I use Win2K3 SP1, PHP 4.4.0, MySQL 4.0.26, rrdtool 1.2.11. I'll by trying it with php 5.x and mysql 4.1 tomorrow and update the document if needed.

Lance · Post by **Lance** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 11:21 am

Appreciate it.......I'll try it again today.

I'll let ya know how it turns out.

Lance · Post by **Lance** » Mon Oct 17, 2005 2:44 pm

ok......I've got it running. Now to learn now to use it!!!
Thanks for updating the documentation, helped out a lot.

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