how to configure Munin-2.0.x to generate content with CGI (only) on Fedora?

Question

I've got a 400+ node munin-1.4.x installation, that I'd like to upgrade to munin-2.x, to take advantage of the CGI based content generation (html & graphs) on the munin master server. I've gone through the official dox ( http://munin-monitoring.org/wiki/CgiHowto2 ), and its simply not working. It only covers a VirtualHost ( http://munin.example.com ), which is not my setup, but I tried to use it as a starting point. Specifically, I want & need http://example.com/munin to be the base URL that dynamically generates the html content listing all the nodes, with links to the individual node pages (which are then dynamically generated/updated when clicked upon). The added catch is that I'm doing this on Fedora(16), and the vast majority of howto's that I've found assume Debian/Ubuntu (or assume non-cgi static content generation via cron). The official Fedora munin package installs the following: - munin base directory is /var/www/html/munin - munin static content direcotry is /var/www/html/…

Accepted Answer

The problem is that, if you use the configuration in a "location" based setup (rather than in a VirtualHost"), the flag for the RewriteRule is wrong.

As per mod_rewrite docu:

```
 L  Stop the rewriting process immediately and don't apply any more rules.
```

However, in your case you want /munin/cgi/munin-cgi-html to be passed on so that the ScriptAlias actually triggers. Thus:

```
 PT Forces the resulting URI to be passed back to the URL mapping engine for
    processing of other URI-to-filename translators, such as Alias or Redirect
```

If you change your rules to read

```
RewriteRule ^/(.*)  /munin/cgi/munin-cgi-html/$1 [PT]  
....  
RewriteRule ^/(.*)  /munin/cgi/munin-cgi-graph/$1 [PT]
```

Note the relative path, as otherwise the ScriptAlias doesn't work.

how to configure Munin-2.0.x to generate content with CGI (only) on Fedora?

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