Zabbix 1.0 and Fedora Core 4 (PHP5) ?

[gmuller]

Hi,

I have been using zabbix with FC3 and RH 8 since several months. I just tried to implement zabbix on a Fedore 4 by using the following packages :
zabbix-1.0-2.rhfc4.at
zabbix-phpfrontend-1.0-2.rhfc4.at
zabbix-agent-1.0-2.rhfc4.at

The installation went well, but I cannot login with the admin user.
- No error message in the httpd log
- No error message in the php window
- data well uploaded in the mysql database and reachable.

My host has php5 implemented
# rpm -qa | grep php
php-odbc-5.0.4-10.4
php-ldap-5.0.4-10.4
php-5.0.4-10.4
php-pgsql-5.0.4-10.4
zabbix-phpfrontend-1.0-2.rhfc4.at
php-pear-5.0.4-10.4
php-mysql-5.0.4-10.4

Can you please let me know if anyone of you managed to implement zabbix on a Fedora 4 with php5 ?
Is there any way to have it working or should I consider moving back to a Fedora 3 with a php4 environment.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Guy

[James Wells]

Greetings,

I know this is going to be one of those 'DUH' questions, but are you sure you updated the configuration in include/db_inc.php?

Normally, when you get this it indicates that you are unable to communicate with the database.

[Alexei]

Perhaphs user "Admin" (not "admin") will make the difference.

[gmuller]

Thank you for your reply and sorry about the typos.
I used Admin and not admin as indicated in the manual and other posts

The Admin account is created in the db :
Admin Zabbix Administrator d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

In the "db.inc.php" file I have :
// $DB_TYPE ="POSTGRESQL";
$DB_TYPE ="MYSQL";
$DB_SERVER ="localhost";
$DB_DATABASE ="zabbix";
$DB_USER ="zabbix";
$DB_PASSWORD ="zabbixpassword";


The user/password is the good one :
# mysql -u zabbix zabbix -p
Enter password:
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 22 to server version: 4.1.12

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> show tables
-> ;
+------------------+
| Tables_in_zabbix |
+------------------+
| actions |
| alarms |
| alerts |
| config |
| functions |
| graphs |
| graphs_items |
| groups |

Enabling the display error mode in php did not provide me more information.

Do you know if there is any way to get more traces (debug mode) ?
Can you please confirm me that zabbix should work ok with php5 ?

Thanks again for your time,

Guy

[Alexei]

I remeber about several issues with ZABBIX v1.0 and PHP5. ZABBIX 1.0 does not support PHP5.

[gmuller]

Hi,

Thank you for your feedback, can you please let me know if php5 will be supported by the current alpha release of zabbix ?

Thanks

Guy

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Here is a status of my tests :

I just tried XAMPP in php 4.4 mode and it worked.
Then I switched XAMPP in php5 mode and it worked too.

Well with these good results, I replaced the system php.ini file with XAMPP php.ini file and it woked there too.

My next step will be to check the php.ini setting which generated the issue.

FYI the differences are :
# diff php.ini php.ini_ori | grep -v '[<>] ;' | grep -v '[<>] *$'
3,13d2
15c4
---
56a46
58,60c48,122
---
69a132,134
> zend.ze1_compatibility_mode = Off
70a136,140
77c147
< precision = 12
---
> precision = 14
80c150
< y2k_compliance = Off
---
> y2k_compliance = On
89c159
< output_buffering = Off
---
> output_buffering = 4096
92,104c162,173
< output_handler =
< unserialize_callback_func=
---
109,111c178,183
---
113a186,190
120a198,211
> unserialize_callback_func=
> serialize_precision = 100
129a221
131a224
139c232
< safe_mode_gid = On
---
> safe_mode_gid = Off
145c238
< safe_mode_include_dir =
---
> safe_mode_include_dir =
151,156d243
171a259,264
173c266
---
176a270,274
> disable_classes =
178,184c276,282
< highlight.string = #CC0000
< highlight.comment = #FF9900
< highlight.keyword = #006600
< highlight.bg = #FFFFFF
< highlight.default = #0000CC
< highlight.html = #000000
---
201a300
> max_input_time = 60 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data
211c310
---
219a319,321
230a333,336
239c345
---
241c347
< error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE
---
> error_reporting = E_ALL
248c354,355
< display_errors = On
---
> display_errors = Off
258c365
< log_errors = Off
---
> log_errors = On
268c375
---
272a380,384
> report_memleaks = On
276a389
278c391,401
---
291,293d413
< warn_plus_overloading = Off
302c422
---
306c426
---
325c445,450
< register_globals = On
---
> register_globals = Off
> register_long_arrays = Off
335,337d459
< gpc_order = "GPC"
342c464
< magic_quotes_gpc = On
---
> magic_quotes_gpc = Off
345c467
< magic_quotes_runtime = Off
---
> magic_quotes_runtime = Off
364a487
369c492
---
387,388c510
---
> extension_dir = "/usr/lib/php/modules"
401c523,527
---
413a540,547
438a573,585
> default_socket_timeout = 60
449,453c596
---
457c600
---
462,531c605,608
< extension="zip.so"
< extension="sqlite.so"
---
533d609
547a624
> smtp_port = 25
550c627
< sendmail_from = [email protected]
---
553c630
---
> sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
555,559c632,635
< [Java]
---
579c655
< odbc.max_links = -1
---
> odbc.max_links = -1
583c659
< odbc.defaultlrl = 4096
---
> odbc.defaultlrl = 4096
588c664
< odbc.defaultbinmode = 1
---
> odbc.defaultbinmode = 1
618c694
---
622a699,736
> mysql.connect_timeout = 60
> mysql.trace_mode = Off
> [MySQLI]
> mysqli.max_links = -1
> mysqli.default_port = 3306
> mysqli.default_socket =
> mysqli.default_host =
> mysqli.default_user =
> mysqli.default_password =
> mysqli.reconnect = Off
637,638c751,753
< pgsql.auto_reset_persistent = Off
---
> pgsql.auto_reset_persistent = Off
646a762
693a810,819
> [dbx]
> dbx.colnames_case = "lowercase"
743c869
---
745c871,894
< session.save_path = /tmp
---
> session.save_path = "/var/lib/php/session"
749a899,901
769c921
---
770a923,926
771a928
> session.gc_divisor = 1000
776a934,950
> session.bug_compat_42 = 0
> session.bug_compat_warn = 1
792c966,967
---
798,800c973,1001
< session.use_trans_sid = 1
---
> session.use_trans_sid = 0
> session.hash_function = 0
> session.hash_bits_per_character = 5
821a1023,1028
830a1038,1042
833a1046,1048
892,895d1106
< [Sockets]
< sockets.use_system_read = On
898c1109
---
908,910d1118
< [Printer]
911a1120,1122
923a1135,1141
925c1143
---
934,935c1152,1158
---
940c1163
---
952,955c1175,1204
< [Crack]
< crack.default_dictionary = "c:\php4\lib\cracklib_dict"
---
> [exif]
> [Tidy]
> tidy.clean_output = Off
> [soap]
> soap.wsdl_cache_enabled=1
> soap.wsdl_cache_dir="/tmp"
> soap.wsdl_cache_ttl=86400

[Alexei]

Yes, the latest ZABBIX 1.1 alphas do support PHP5.

[gmuller]

Excellent, thank you.

Have a great one,

Guy

[tbbost]

I just upgraded my fedora to core 4 which has PHP 5.
Try putting the following code in your config.inc.php and this should help.

if (!isset($HTTP_POST_VARS) && isset($_POST))
{
$HTTP_POST_VARS = $_POST;
$HTTP_GET_VARS = $_GET;
$HTTP_SERVER_VARS = $_SERVER;
$HTTP_COOKIE_VARS = $_COOKIE;
$HTTP_ENV_VARS = $_ENV;
$HTTP_POST_FILES = $_FILES;
}

[bsriphet]

Nice, that simple addition does take care of PHP5 compatibility.
Thank you!

/b