Extreme Liux Newbie needs easy help on installation

[chris.y2k.r1]

Hello All,

I am thanking GOD this forum exists!!! I just finished installaing apache and got it running. I tried desperatley to run cacti by...

http://myservername/cacti

and it does nothing. I know appache is running just fine because I can see apache when I log into it by typing the same as above but ommitting /cacti at the end. I followed the instruction for creating the mysql data base for cacti and adding it to my etc/crontab file. I followed to install instruction on this website but I must have done something wrong. Although all the commands seemed to have worked. Also, despite my believe I installed Cacti currectly (This can be done using yum for us FC4 users right??) I see no service that will start cacti in the service list????????

Ummm... Help!

THanks so much! I will be sooo happy if I can get this thing up and running but I am going to have a touch time becuase I just started working with Linux so there's a double learning curve going on here. I love Linux FC4 though and I refuse to go back to Windows.

Thanks again in advance and I would reallly appreciate anyone who could help my install this using yum if possible and then help with the configuration from there. I'm a bist lost by some of the install instructions and what it assumes I may have done prior to this.

[chris.y2k.r1]

A little more info...

httpd is up and running
mysqld is up and running

I see no cactid to configure to run so I am assuming that's OK.

I'm not sure that I configure my /etc/contab file correctly so I post it here - Please understand that the location for cacti is only temporary because this is just a test machine that I format and reinstall often. Once I get it all figured out I will install cacti in a much more sensible location.

Here's /etc/contab file...

SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
HOME=/

# run-parts
01 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.hourly
02 4 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily
22 4 * * 0 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
42 4 1 * * root run-parts /etc/cron.monthly
*/5 * * * * root php /root/Desktop/cacti-0.8.6h
/poller.php > /dev/null 2>&1


Is that wrong? What does the 22 4 * * stuff at the beginning of the line indicate... is that when a job is to run expresses in some kind of time/date format or what..

Like I said... I am really new... so please PLEASE bare with my retarded self.

Thanks!!!!!

[chris.y2k.r1]

Ok - I am just trying to give you guys as much info as possible...

It seems that when I loginto /myserver/cacti... I do not get a message saying that the url does not exist. It simply loads nothing. So I am missing something here but I am not sure what it is. Also, I am confused about net-snmp. Should that be listed in the services?? I only see snmpd or net-smnbd. Any help for my lame self would really be appreciated!

Thanks!!

[crinago]

please try http://yourservername/cacti/index.php

[chris.y2k.r1]

I already have dns through no-ip, that's not my problem at all. My problem is that cacti is not loading, Apache is fine.

[chris.y2k.r1]

*bump*

Help??

[surf_joe]

see in the http if you have configured the apache with PHP..

(and the PHP with XML support .. )

[gandalf]

Ok - I am just trying to give you guys as much info as possible...

It seems that when I loginto /myserver/cacti... I do not get a message saying that the url does not exist. It simply loads nothing. So I am missing something here but I am not sure what it is. Also, I am confused about net-snmp. Should that be listed in the services?? I only see snmpd or net-smnbd. Any help for my lame self would really be appreciated!

Thanks!!

Anything shown in your httpd's error_log?
Reinhard

[N3NCY]

Is your cacti installed under the "htdocs" directory under Apache?

Like:
/usr/local/apache/htdocs/cacti

Do you see your web server respond to just:
http://YourServerNameOrIPhere

[tgk]

mmm... It seems you have your cacti installed in /root/Desktop/cacti-0.8.6h/ (...from the cron you posted above)
It should be in /var/www/html/cacti/
... otherwise, you'll have to create a virtual in your httpd.conf, to tell apache where to find cacti. ... you can also change your DocumentRoot there...

[chris.y2k.r1]

Now we're talking... going to try this now..