Issue no hosts listed when using with apache (standalone works ok) about collectd-web HOT 2 OPEN

To people who has failed to list the 'hosts' on collectd-web GUI, this might also be one of the problem where the 'our $Config' under 'collectd-web/cgi-bin/collection.modified.cgi collection.modified.cgi' file should be changed to appropriate path where the collectd.conf file exists.

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I had this issue as well. It was happening because apache was not processing the cgi scripts. You have to modify the configuration in sites-enabled with the AllowOverride all directive so that it will pick up the cgi configuration present in the .htaccess file on the cgi-bin folder.

The docs (http://collectdweb.appspot.com/documentation/) have some info on this. If you just do this:

<Directory /var/www/collectd-web>
  AllowOverride all
</Directory>

it should work (after you restart apache). Make sure you also have mod_cgi installed, or it won't work either. You can check it's working if you load one of the cgi scripts, and see if it resolves to an xml response instead of showing the raw script contents:

http://localhost/collectd-web/cgi-bin/collection.modified.cgi

Hope this helps!

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