[CentOS] smokeping on CentOS questions

[John R Pierce]

Rogelio wrote:
> I'm having some problems getting CentOS to serve up my Smokeping pages 
> (http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/)
>
> However, I'm having problems getting the pages to serve up correctly.
>
> Here is a quick run down of what I've done.
>
> (1) wget and untar to /usr/local/smokeping
> (2) chown -R root:root /usr/local/smokeping
> (3) modifying to the following files to reflect my environment
>
> (not sure if all my steps here were good)
>
> /usr/local/smokeping/bin/smokeping
> /usr/local/smokepoing/htdocs/smokeping.cfg
>
> (4) ln -s /usr/local/smokeping/htdocs /var/www/html/smokeping
>
> When I go to "www.mybox.com/smokeping 
> <http://www.mybox.com/smokeping>", all I get is a list of files, not 
> the webpage I would expect to get.
>
> What might I be doing wrong?


apache isn't real fond of symbolic links unless you add Directory 
primitives for the real directory.   actually, I'd blow off the symlink 
entirely, and instead use something like...

/etc/httpd/conf.d/smokering.conf:
    Alias   /smokering/     /usr/local/smokering/htdocs/
    <Directory /usr/local/smokering/htdocs>
        AllowOverride All
        Options MultiViews All
    </Directory>


(adjusting the privileges as needed inside that <Directory> block...)