Package: smokeping
Version: 2.7.3-2
Severity: wishlist
smokeping upstream doesn't really provide much documentation on how to
setup smokeping in apache. The debian package at least provides the
/etc/apache2/conf-available/smokeping.conf file which helps a lot.
In addition to that, here are some things I had to do:
* install alias module so that ScriptAlias and Alias work
* install mpm_prefork and cgi modules (is there a way to use event or
worker?)
* setup SSL with letsencrypt
- install the ssl module, and also the mime module since ssl uses
AddType and socache_shmcb module
- if you are doing this and using the webserver itself to provide
proof of controlling the host you might need to exclude the
.well-known dir with something like:
RedirectMatch ^/(?!.well-known.*)$
https://example.com/smokeping/smokeping.cgi
* install authz_core module since "Require all granted" is used
* I also password protected mine which required: auth_basic,
authn_core, authn_file
The webserver section of the upstream install document at
https://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/doc/smokeping_install.en.html
mentions:
The important thing is, to have a webserver which allows you to run
CGI and preferably FastCGI scripts. If you are using Apache I
strongly recommend using the suexec system for running CGI scripts as
a particular user.
See http://httpd.apache.org/mod_fcgid/mod/mod_fcgid.html and
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_suexec.html for more
information on this.
It would be nice to document how to do this and maybe switch the
conf-available to use that method.
Maybe these things could be made into a README.apache that could be
included. It could start with
"The smokeping package includes an apache config at
/etc/apache2/conf-available/smokeping.conf that is enabled by default."
and the talk about the needed modules and maybe how to a2disconf it and
Include it in another conf instead, etc.
Thanks,
--
Matt Taggart
tagg...@debian.org
