Comments on: Cacti: Ubuntu 8.04 Cacti Plugin – Invalid PHP_SELF Path problem

By: Yogesh Sathe

Yogesh Sathe — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 06:28:12 +0000

Hi, I am new to ubuntu (10.04 lucid:desktop) as well as cacti. I tried to install manually the cacti. everything worked but I didn’t find any graphs in graphs section. Therefter I tried to install using apt-get install method. Here while adding Plugin architecture and after following your method, I am not able to login to Cacti using default user admin.

as per documentation, taken backup of cacti folder.
files in files-0.8.7g were copied to /usr/share/cacti/site/ folder, tried to change global.php, but after that I am unable to login on http://localhost/cacti/

Please suggest where I might be going wrong.

By: Christopher Palmer

Christopher Palmer — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:23:11 +0000

Thanks for this!
I was struggling with this for a while.
The Ubuntu package installed cacti 0.8.7b. I was trying to use the PIA, but only later realized it was v 0.8.7g, and this caused all kinds of problems. Eventually I searched and found PIA v 0.8.7b and got the “Invalid PHP_SELF” error, which brought me here.
Your guide was very helpful. I did get a bunch of warnings when logging out (like: Warning: reset() [function.reset]: Passed variable is not an array or object in /usr/share/cacti/site/lib/functions.php on line 146).
Fixed this via the following help URL: http://forums.cacti.net/about26136.html

By: How to Install Cacti 0.7.8d Plugin Architecture on Ubuntu 9.10 | David Merrick

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:54:05 +0000

[...] PS: If you are still having problems with your install, try this older (but still relevant) guide. [...]

By: donal

donal — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:45:24 +0000

Hi,
I have used your guide above both with 9.04 and now with 9.10.
When I upgraded Ubuntu, cacti got upgraded to 0.8.7.d
however the PA was fried.
So I reinstalled the latest PA 2.5 which had the global.php saved in dos format and had to use “fromdos” to correct it.

Above everything is still basically valid except that the comment at line 128 is no longer needed.

Once again. Thanks for this great page. It’s super work.

By: James

James — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:16:12 +0000

Excellent. I followed your instructions to the T and it worked. All my old data is still there

By: Kosta P

Kosta P — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:07:03 +0000

I am running ubuntu 8.04 LTS and this didn’t work for my configuration of cacti 0.8.7b installed as a package.

The problem remains in the global.php and it looks like the regular expression on lines 86-87 are not always working and it breaks very quickly. I had to restart the apache server all the time.
In order to fix that temporary, I replaced them with static paths, I hope they will fix that in the next release.

#REMOVED LINES:
$config["base_path"] = strtr(ereg_replace(“(.*)[\/\\]include”, “\\1″, dirname(__FILE__)), “\\”, “/”);
$config["library_path"] = ereg_replace(“(.*[\/\\])include”, “\\1lib”, dirname(__FILE__));

#ADDED LINES:
$config["base_path"] = ‘/usr/share/cacti/site’;
$config["library_path"] = ‘/usr/share/cacti/site/lib’;

By: TFC

TFC — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:26:46 +0000

Hi,
I did it all using patch…
But spine not worked after plugin arc. installed.
any idea?

By: Still Getting Errors

Still Getting Errors — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:32:35 +0000

Gents

I am getring this error after following you quide

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /usr/share/cacti/site/include/global.php on line 107

By: mike

mike — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:24:32 +0000

I’m confused. I ran the patch and found this article with all the updates I need to make to global.php, but when I look at the lines, they are already in there and it still doesn’t work. The patch looked like it ran with no errors. Could I have another problem??

By: webmaster

webmaster — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:31:02 +0000

Thanks Tom and Brian for your comments. I’ve updated the post with your feedback.