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

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.

By: tom

tom — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:18:18 +0000

thanks for this lil snippet of help
however i had a bit of an issue adding the code you provide:
firstly 1 small typo
$config["rra_path"] = “/var/lib/cacti/rra”;
this should read:
$config["rra_path"] = “/var/lib/cacti/rra”;
secondly is line 128
i add what you provided but it appeard to give the error ‘unexpected { on line 128 so after looking at the line of code & taking in what it’s neighbouring lines contained i added an extra ) this helped fix the issue but if you would rather replace the entire line use this:
if (!((is_file($_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"])) && (substr_count($_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"], basename($_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]))))) {

again thanks alot for giving me the spring board to fix this little bug

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:44:15 +0000

I figured I’d find the culprit…

On line 56 Change:

$config['url_path'] = ‘/’;

to:

$config['url_path'] = ‘/cacti/’;

That did it!!!
Thanks for your hard work.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:40:19 +0000

Thank you so much for this fix. I’m almost there. When I add in all the prepatched files, and make the above changes to /usr/share/cacti/site/include/global.php the site does come back…almost.

I lose all text formatting and graphics. All of the links on the left also have dropped the /cacti/ directory and are attempting to link the php files to the root of the directory.

If you have any recommendations, they are greatly welcomed. I will continue tweaking and post any updates as I am successful.

Thanks