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Cacti and PHP installation failures
I'm pulling my hair out trying to get Cacti (PRO-Cacti_1.9) running on a fresh 4.2.20-T28 Pro 6.
I'm getting a "Problem installing PHP 5 Library" pop up message. Then frontview can't be accessed (I worked around that by using SSH and deleting /renaming PHP5.conf and restarting apache).
So I uninstall Cacti and install the latest PHP plugin (PHP5_5.3.8-rnx86-3.5.1 from Whocares?). Reinstall Cacti, no PHP error, but no frontview. If I run php -v at the command line, I get a command not found error. I reinstall the PHP plugin and confirm php -v looks good, but when I launch Cacti from frontview, all it does is download a file. The file, when opened with a text editor, to my untrained eye, looks like a PHP file that was downloaded (instead of run/interpreted).
Any advice you guys could offer would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Greg
PS- I have installed Photos II (to meet the mysql dependency).
I'm getting a "Problem installing PHP 5 Library" pop up message. Then frontview can't be accessed (I worked around that by using SSH and deleting /renaming PHP5.conf and restarting apache).
So I uninstall Cacti and install the latest PHP plugin (PHP5_5.3.8-rnx86-3.5.1 from Whocares?). Reinstall Cacti, no PHP error, but no frontview. If I run php -v at the command line, I get a command not found error. I reinstall the PHP plugin and confirm php -v looks good, but when I launch Cacti from frontview, all it does is download a file. The file, when opened with a text editor, to my untrained eye, looks like a PHP file that was downloaded (instead of run/interpreted).
Any advice you guys could offer would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Greg
PS- I have installed Photos II (to meet the mysql dependency).
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- I seem to remember the issue being that the Cacti add-on downloads a specific version of PHP and installs it, regardless of whether you have PHP installed or not. And there is a problem with that package on current firmware -- I want to say it was a broken dependency, but I don't remember. I do know that I ended up manually pulling apart the Cacti add-on and altering the installation script to finally get it installed, and that the PHP issue was not the only problem. Unfortunately, I completely failed to take notes on what I did.
- Thanks for the confirmation that the Cacti plugin was broken for you as well. I'll try to dig into the package and see if I can make the same mods.
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