[error] [client xxxx] File does not exist: /var/www/zabbix

[clope023]

I am doing a fresh install of zabbix through the packages procedure according to the main page:

https://www.zabbix.com/documentation/2.0/manual/installation/install_from_packages

The zabbix server, agent, mysql-server, and apache2 server are all runnning fine.

However, when I tried to enter into the frontend through my host name, I got the following output:

The requested URL /zabbix was not found on this server.

So I checked the apache error logs and the result was the error:

[error] [client xxxx] File does not exist: /var/www/zabbix

I'm not what the cause of the error is, like what would cause that file to not be included in this directory upon installation. Any insights as to what this is is most appreciated, thank you.

[Shoikan]

A little more information about your server would be helpful: what distribution are you using exactly, where is your default document root (of the webserver), did you try to restart your server (if you add a new vhost, you'll have to restart it for instance or at least reload the config)..

[clope023]

A little more information about your server would be helpful: what distribution are you using exactly, where is your default document root (of the webserver), did you try to restart your server (if you add a new vhost, you'll have to restart it for instance or at least reload the config)..

My linux distribution is Ubuntu 12.04, so the default document root is supposed to be in /var/www, I've restarted apache2 and mysql and the zabbix server and the zabbix agent several times but to no avail.

[Shoikan]

When you go to the path specified in the error message, is there anything there? Can you also look in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ and see if you can find anything referring to zabbix there (aka a vhost file)? If so, can you post the contents?

[clope023]

When you go to the path specified in the error message, is there anything there? Can you also look in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ and see if you can find anything referring to zabbix there (aka a vhost file)? If so, can you post the contents?

Nothing but 000-default in the sites-enabled folder, this is the contents of that folder.

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

DocumentRoot /var/www
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn

CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

[Shoikan]

Ok. That looks like it indeed just expects the zabbix frontend to be in the directory /var/www/zabbix. When I get home I'll quickly set up a test system to check out what may be the issue.

[clope023]

Ok. That looks like it indeed just expects the zabbix frontend to be in the directory /var/www/zabbix. When I get home I'll quickly set up a test system to check out what may be the issue.

Thank you for taking the trouble!

[tsalle]

I think the Ubuntu package install the zabbix frontend in /usr/share/zabbix

You can change your apache 00-default (or create a new vhost) to replace /var/www by /usr/share/zabbix.