Cacti/PHP Problem Under Windows

[raX]

Has someone give a try to the latest php release: 4.35rc1; to fix the bug?

No, but I will if I think of it sometime this weekend.

-Ian

[raX]

I gave PHP 4.35rc1-win32 a try this evening... no luck

-Ian

[pierre]

I had the same problem, and I tried a DIRTY thing, but it works : the problem is permissions-related, I allowed the two IUSR_xxx and IWAM_xxx account to full permission to the entire C: drive , and it runs now very well.

Now it justs need to be fined tuned to set the rights permissions only where it's needed.

hope this helps...

[Guest]

hmmm I've wrote a bit too quickly

It works a few times, then the same "graphics" problem came back.

So I've changed the php cgi stuffs, according to http://php.weblogs.com/fastcgi_with_php_and_iis , and it works.

[Adje]

Do you mean it works without running in 'cgi'-mode?

Adje

[infuseweb]

Well, I officially give up. I've tried every combination I can think of and nothing works. With IIS 6 I've tried PHP in CGI mode and ISAPI mode. Given CMD.EXE Full Everyone perms, added Everyone to pracitcally every directory short of the root, and nothing works. My graphs in Cacti are still broken. Sigh. Guess it wasn't meant to be

[Guest]

Well, I officially give up. I've tried every combination I can think of and nothing works. With IIS 6 I've tried PHP in CGI mode and ISAPI mode. Given CMD.EXE Full Everyone perms, added Everyone to pracitcally every directory short of the root, and nothing works. My graphs in Cacti are still broken. Sigh. Guess it wasn't meant to be

I have it running with IIS 6. Do you mean red X broken?

[Robert]

Hi,

I think I found a way to get it running on my machine (XP-prof with IIS)

I set these entries in php.ini

cgi.force_redirect = 0
cgi.redirect_status_event = 0

It didn´t work with "php4isapi.dll" though !!!

But it works when using CGI-mode for PHP and also Fast-Cgi works fine
( http://php.weblogs.com/fastcgi_with_php_and_iis ).
For using CGI or Fast-CGI see the other posts in this thread.

The crucial thing to get it working:

cmd.exe (in \Windows\system32) needs additional security setting for IUSR - read & execute)
directory cacti\log needs IUSR - Full control

Any ideas about bad security implications by allowing IUSR access to cmd.exe ?
I think access to the cacti\log directory shouldn´t be an issue.


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[infuseweb]

Well, I officially give up. I've tried every combination I can think of and nothing works. With IIS 6 I've tried PHP in CGI mode and ISAPI mode. Given CMD.EXE Full Everyone perms, added Everyone to pracitcally every directory short of the root, and nothing works. My graphs in Cacti are still broken. Sigh. Guess it wasn't meant to be

I have it running with IIS 6. Do you mean red X broken?

Yes, red x where the images are supposed to be

[Guest]

Well, I officially give up. I've tried every combination I can think of and nothing works. With IIS 6 I've tried PHP in CGI mode and ISAPI mode. Given CMD.EXE Full Everyone perms, added Everyone to pracitcally every directory short of the root, and nothing works. My graphs in Cacti are still broken. Sigh. Guess it wasn't meant to be

I have it running with IIS 6. Do you mean red X broken?

Yes, red x where the images are supposed to be

Assuming you have a default website in IIS, have you tried changing the anonymous user (IUSR_machinename) to a local account? That should quickly rule in or out permission problems.

[Guest]

I have it running with IIS 6. Do you mean red X broken?

Yes, red x where the images are supposed to be

Assuming you have a default website in IIS, have you tried changing the anonymous user (IUSR_machinename) to a local account? That should quickly rule in or out permission problems.

Actually now that i think of it, is URL scan installed on the webserver?
Also if you go into graph management, select a graph then select Turn on graph debug mode are you getting an error there?

[infuseweb]

No, URL Scan is not installed. In IIS6, it's not even an option, unless there's something I'm missing. All PHP pages seem to work fine.

Yes, I've changed it to a local account and still nothing

[Guest]

No, URL Scan is not installed. In IIS6, it's not even an option, unless there's something I'm missing. All PHP pages seem to work fine.

Yes, I've changed it to a local account and still nothing

What happens if you go into graph management, select a graph then select Turn on graph debug mode are you getting an error there?

[Robert]

For debugging permissions you could try to run the command manually:

My cacti installation is in c:\monitor and my machine name is nx7000.
check the full user name of the IUSR account.

When entering the command you will be askes for a password. Just enter the user-name again.

runas /netonly /user:IUSR_NX7000 "\monitor\php\php.exe \monitor\cacti\cmd.php"

You could also try index.php instead of cmd.php


Robert

[raX]

Someone has posted a potential workaround for this bug on PHP's bug tracker. My initial tests show that the workaround is indeed doing its job in ISAPI mode. Before I jump with joy, can some of you guys confirm this using the latest Windows pre-release?

http://www.raxnet.net/downloads/cacti/beta/win32/

I would like to release 0.8.5 sometime this evening/tomorrow and I would love to include this as a fix.

-Ian