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[ovisopa]

Hello guys,

I try to install mod_watch_4.3 on a new VDS with cPanel/WHM and apache_watch_ plugin for Munin monitoring service.

I think the mod_watch is successfully installed because I can see this in the phpinfo()

PHP Code:

SERVER_SIGNATURE     <address>Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_watch/4.3 </address> 
SERVER_SOFTWARE     Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_watch/4.3 


As I saw the notice to not edit manualy the httpd.conf, I did so and added the directive in WHM > Apache Configuration > Include Editor on the "Pre Main Include"

here is what I added there :

PHP Code:

  <IfModule mod_watch.c>
    # Allows the URL used to query virtual host data:
    #
    #   http://www.snert.com/watch-info
    #
    <Location /watch-info>
    SetHandler watch-info 
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from localhost
    </Location>

    # Allows the URL used to query file owner and web
    # server data:
    #
    #   http://www.snert.com/~achowe/watch-info
    #   http://www.snert.com/~SERVER/watch-info
    #
    <Location /~*/watch-info>
    SetHandler watch-info
    </Location>
  </IfModule> 


when I try to test the plugin, running the command:

# ./mod_watch.pl -f ifRequests,ifDocuments http://127.0.0.1/watch-list/

I get this error in apache error_log

[Sat Jan 09 15:06:31 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /usr/local/apache/htdocs/watch-list

I followed instructions mainly from this website http://www.freshnet.org/wordpress/20...st-with-munin/

Any ideea what might be the issue ?

Thank you advance.

[ovisopa]

After more hours of testing and trying different configs I still can't make http://localhost/watch-info display what it should.

But now I'm 100% sure mod_watch is installed corectly, I have added the directives <IfModule mod_watch.c> .... into one of the vhosts and access the link like http://vhost/watch-info and it displayed corectly.

The only problem is that I can't make it work for http://localhost because of cPanel

i have tried adding the directive in different places, at the beggining of httpd.conf, at the end, in the main server vhost, just above all vhosts, after another directive which works just fine (paste the code bellow) but still not working,

PHP Code:

<Location /whm-server-status>
    SetHandler server-status
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Location>

<IfModule mod_watch.c>
.... 


This is what I get:

PHP Code:

# ./mod_watch.pl -f ifRequests,ifDocuments http://localhost/watch-info

localhost:80 (Not Found) 


Anyone can help me with this? How to make it work on this cPanel server? I'm 99,9% sure this is all about cPanel

[LeaTrueman]

Hello,

Are you getting the same result for http://127.0.0/watch-info after you have finished the installation completely?

[ovisopa]

If you mean if I tested with bouth localhost and 127.0.0.1, yes I have tried to access watch-info using bouth ways, and also changed the directives in httpd.conf from localhost to 127.0.0.1

It was a mistake when you wrote 127.0.0 (without .1) ? I have not tried without .1 but I'm sure this is not a valid IP address.

[powerflash]

Hi ovisopa, I installed mod_watch and set url in localhost: server-status, etc... all url work and I set plugin in munin but dont see graph in munin seciton of WHM panel, you can help me?

[ovisopa]

sorry but I couldn't make it work and I gave up. If you can resolve the issues let us know.

In WHM Munin's page you see a section called Apache Watch, but is empty or you don't see any change in WHM at all ?