Installing SmokePing on Cent OS

[babolat]

Running CentOS release 5.7 (Final) 64-bit, clean image with only VMWare tools setup and networking configured. It was purpose built to host Smoke Ping, and I performed the install exactly as described:

how2centos.com/installing-smokeping-on-centos-5-5/

However, I receive an Error 500 when browsing to localhost/smokeping/smokeping.cgi

SELinux is running permissive mode, no errors in /var/log/messages. Do have errors in/var/log/httpd/error_log:

[Sat Feb 04 16:38:48 2012] [error] [client 172.18.2.61] (2)No such file or directory: exec of '/var/www/html/smokeping/smokeping.cgi' failed
[Sat Feb 04 16:38:48 2012] [error] [client 172.18.2.61] Premature end of script headers: smokeping.cgi
[Sat Feb 04 16:38:48 2012] [error] [client 172.18.2.61] File does not exist: /var/www/html/favicon.ico
[Sat Feb 04 16:45:03 2012] [error] [client 172.18.2.61] script not found or unable to stat: /var/www/cgi-bin/test-cgi

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks!!

[Rubberman]

It looks like you did not install the files where they are expected to be. Look on the server in /var/www/html to see if the appropriate stuff mentioned in the error log is there. If so, perhaps either file files are corrupted (probably not - it can't find them at all), or the directories are not accessible by the web/application server. What are you running for your web/application server?

[babolat]

It looks like you did not install the files where they are expected to be. Look on the server in /var/www/html to see if the appropriate stuff mentioned in the error log is there. If so, perhaps either file files are corrupted (probably not - it can't find them at all), or the directories are not accessible by the web/application server. What are you running for your web/application server?

1. @Rubberman, prior to your response I amended the file owner of /var/www/html/smokeping to 'root'. Per your suggestion, here is the contents of /var/www/html:

[root@localhost html]# ll -a
total 24
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 Feb 3 14:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Oct 20 16:05 ..
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb 3 15:08 smokeping

2. The webserver is:


[root@localhost html]# apachectl -v
Server version: Apache/2.2.3
Server built: Oct 20 2011 17:00:12


Update of symptoms:

[root@localhost html]# service httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [ OK ]
Starting httpd: [ OK ]
[root@localhost html]# service smokeping restart
Stopping Smokeping: [ OK ]
Starting Smokeping: [ OK ]
[root@localhost html]# service smokeping status
smokeping dead but subsys locked

When I browse to
localhost/smokeping/smokeping.cgi I receive an "internal server error has occurred."

The issue sounds similar to described here:
howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15919

Should the owner of /var/www/html/smokeping be something other than 'root'? I'm open to any suggestions!! Thanks.

[Rubberman]

Sorry, but I'm at my limits here since I have never worked with smokeping. If I find out anything else that might help you, I'll let you know!

[Lazydog]

Apache isn't going to be able to read the contents of the directory if it is root:root. Maybe changing it to root:apache or what ever the group is for Apache would help. I am sure you have not given Apache root privileges.