cacti on a vhost

legit · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:11 pm Post subject: cacti on a vhost

hey all,

i just set up apache and emerged cacti (didn't run config yet). what i would like to do is be able to access my normal website documents via typing into a browser on my computer http://mybox, where mybox is the hostname of my linux box (instead of having to type its ip address). in addition to this i want to set up a virtual host on apache to have http://cacti.mybox point to my cacti installation. heres what i was thinking so far for the vhosts:

alex.blackbit · Advocate Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2397

if you want to be able to reach a host on your internal network by name and do not want to make big efforts, just add a entry to /etc/hosts. note that this will only work on the machine where the entry exists. if you want a system that works on your whole network, you will need a dns server.
do you plan to run more than one website on the server? otherwise the default vhost would be sufficient.

legit · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:24 pm Post subject:

yeah, i plan on having several areas for testing sites (so multiple websites) on my linux machine.

alex.blackbit · Advocate Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2397

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/

di1bert · l33t Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 963 Location: Oslo, Norway

Are you using webapp-config for installing your webapps liike Cacti ?
Check it out sometime if you haven't app-admin/webapp-config

And on a completely unrelated not, for the love of all things shiny keep
Cacti up to date !!! It's been really bad for us here in terms of security
holes.

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legit · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:45 pm Post subject:

well, i was going to use web-app but i thought it would be better to create a virtual host first for cacti.

Thanks for the tips!

- legit

legit · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 7:03 pm Post subject:

So is there any way to set up an internal (to my home network) domain only. So i wont have to register the domain or anything?

alex.blackbit · Advocate Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2397

again. you just need your hosts file for that. or a local dns server. NO domain registration on the internet needed for that.

legit · Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 8:01 pm Post subject:

oh ok, thanks.

legit · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:13 am Post subject:

One Last question.

I've set up a vhost, what do i set the document root to? and also when setting up cacti with webapp-config what do i put for the host, is it just localhost or is it the name of the vhost i've set up (ie. cacti.domain.tld)?

thanks,
- legit

alex.blackbit · Advocate Joined: 26 Jul 2005 Posts: 2397

when you define a vhost manually, you (normally) set the document root to a directory under /var/www/??????/htdocs. of course you have to create the directory yourself and set the right permissions.