About /www/html/

[AlBo]

Hi,

Yesterday I spent 3 hours to try to understand why I couldn't access to zabbix after installing it!

I've done a fresh install and when you install Apache, it creates a www/html/index.php presentation page.

I've installed zabbix via packages on Ubuntu and never you notice that zabbix make use www/html.

it's only after spending hours parsing all installation pages that I saw few lines above this paragraph , some thing which says:

2 Installing Zabbix web interface
Copying PHP files

Zabbix frontend is written in PHP, so to run it a PHP supported webserver is needed. Installation is done by simply copying the PHP files from frontends/php to the webserver HTML documents directory.

Common locations of HTML documents directories for Apache web servers include:

/usr/local/apache2/htdocs (default directory when installing Apache from source)
/srv/www/htdocs (OpenSUSE, SLES)
/var/www/html (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL, CentOS)

....

So I guessed that could be the reason I cannot reach zabbix even if it's not clearly said here!
Anyway, we only see this paragraph if we install zabbix from sources, not from package!

So please could you add a warning in the install from package procedure?

Regards,
Al

[SBO]

Hi,

The webpage you refer is when you compile yourself Zabbix.

With the packages, you just need to install the php frontend, and your zabbix server will be available through http://yourhost/zabbix

Installing packages

Here is an example for Zabbix server and web frontend installation with MySQL database:

# yum install zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-web-mysql

(Reference : https://www.zabbix.com/documentation...ion_with_mysql)

So.. Yeah, it is written.