munin help

[rslinks]

Hi,
I use your helpful guide for how to monitoring the server with munin.
But I have problems...

When I'm trying to access munin through the browser (rslinks.org/monitoring)I get "You don't have permission to access /monitoring/ on this serve"
My munin configure file:

dbdir /var/lib/munin
htmldir /var/www/vhosts/rslinks.org/httpdocs/monitoring
logdir /var/log/munin
rundir /var/run/munin

[rslinks.org]
address 127.0.0.1
use_node_name yes

The /var/www/vhosts/rslinks.org/httpdocs/monitoring dir doesn't contain any files. while I search the folder munin, I found this /var/www/munin dir that contain localdomain dir with all the image on it,index, style and etc.

[zcworld]

does apache / www user / group own / have access to the files/folders

maybe thats the problem ...

[rslinks]

Originally Posted by zcworld

does apache / www user / group own / have access to the files/folders

maybe thats the problem ...

Hi zcworld,
Thank you for the fast reply.

I used this code:
chown munin:munin /var/www/www.example.com/web/monitoring
To give to munin group and user access to monitoring folder. But I don't know if apache give them access, since I don't how to do it (I'm beginner).

Can you tell me how to do it if you can?

Thanks

[zcworld]

try
chown apache:munin /var/www/path/to/munin
see if thats works

There you set apache (user) to have access and the group (munin) to have access
so any users in the munin group can still have access to what level the group is set at


im still a tab new to the chmod command line myself ... hope it help in a way ... when i get home i will have a look at it a bit more

[rslinks]

Originally Posted by zcworld

try
chown apache:munin /var/www/path/to/munin
see if thats works

There you set apache (user) to have access and the group (munin) to have access
so any users in the munin group can still have access to what level the group is set at


im still a tab new to the chmod command line myself ... hope it help in a way ... when i get home i will have a look at it a bit more

Hi again,

First, thank you for the support

I typed this command: chown apache:munin /var/www/vhosts/rslinks.org/httpdocs/monitoring

but I get this error: chown: `apache:munin': invalid user

[zcworld]

try
chown www:munin

if you get an error
look at the Apache httpd.conf file
and see what user its runs under
it maybe like www-data or www-user

and what howto did you use for the setup / OS

[rslinks]

Originally Posted by zcworld

try
chown www:munin

if you get an error
look at the Apache httpd.conf file
and see what user its runs under
it maybe like www-data or www-user

and what howto did you use for the setup / OS

I get this error: chown: `www:munin': invalid user

I looked on the httpd.conf file but his empty, I understend that the
apache2.conf on debian replace him. I looked on
apache2.conf and I found this:


<IfModule mpm_worker_module>
StartServers 2
MaxClients 300
MinSpareThreads 25
MaxSpareThreads 75
ThreadsPerChild 25
MaxRequestsPerChild 0
</IfModule>

User www-data
Group www-data

this is what you meant?

My OS is Debian and I used this guide:
http://www.howtoforge.com/server_monitoring_monit_munin

[falko]

On Debian the username is www-data, not www.

[rslinks]

I used www-data, but it's still doesn't give munin rights to create files on
/var/www/vhosts/rslinks.org/httpdocs/monitoring

[rslinks]

If I change the htmldir back to /var/www/munin, everything OK - it's creating the all files. but I can't access /var/log/munin through the browser.