How to install prewikka in an ISPConfig managed server?

Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by chillifire, Feb 23, 2008.

  1. chillifire

    chillifire New Member

    Hi,

    this is a question to the makers of ISPConfig and all other Apache buffs.

    I have followed the HowTo Intrusion Detection: Snort (IDS), OSSEC (HbIDS) And Prelude (HIDS) On Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon and got stuck where it is all about including apache directives into the apache files. The HowTo obviously assumes a "normal" installation with configuration in 'sites-enabled' as opposed to under 'vhosts' as is done with ISPConfig:

    Now, I preferred the cgi option anyway and wanted to run prewikka out of a subdirectory. And lo, I found this on the prelude/prewikka site:
    I included the apache directives in the provided field of the ISPConfig managed site login03.chillifire.net, which generates Vhosts_ispconfig.conf. That now looks like this:
    Code:
    ###################################
#
# ISPConfig vHost Configuration File
#         Version 1.0
#
###################################
#
NameVirtualHost 210.48.62.36:80
<VirtualHost 210.48.62.36:80>
  ServerName localhost
  ServerAdmin root@localhost
  DocumentRoot /var/www/sharedip
</VirtualHost>
#
#
######################################
# Vhost: login03.chillifire.net:80
######################################
#
#
<VirtualHost 210.48.62.36:80>
[B]Alias /prelude/prewikka /usr/share/prewikka/htdocs/
ScriptAlias /prelude/ /usr/share/prewikka/cgi-bin/prewikka.cgi
<Directory "/usr/share/prewikka/htdocs/">
        AllowOverride None
        Options ExecCGI
        <IfModule mod_mime.c>
                AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
        </IfModule>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
</Directory>[/B]
ServerName login03.chillifire.net:80
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /var/www/web1/web
ServerAlias chillifire.net
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.php5 index.php4 index.php3 index.shtml index.cgi index.pl index.jsp Default.htm default.htm
Alias  /cgi-bin/ /var/www/web1/cgi-bin/
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
AddHandler cgi-script .pl
ErrorLog /var/www/web1/log/error.log
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .php4 .php5
<Files *.php>
    SetOutputFilter PHP
    SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>
<Files *.php3>
    SetOutputFilter PHP
    SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>
<Files *.php4>
    SetOutputFilter PHP
    SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>
<Files *.php5>
    SetOutputFilter PHP
    SetInputFilter PHP
</Files>
php_admin_flag safe_mode Off
Alias /error/ "/var/www/web1/web/error/"
ErrorDocument 400 /error/invalidSyntax.html
ErrorDocument 401 /error/authorizationRequired.html
ErrorDocument 403 /error/forbidden.html
ErrorDocument 404 /error/fileNotFound.html
ErrorDocument 405 /error/methodNotAllowed.html
ErrorDocument 500 /error/internalServerError.html
ErrorDocument 503 /error/overloaded.html
AliasMatch ^/~([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web1/user/$1/web/$3
AliasMatch ^/users/([^/]+)(/(.*))? /var/www/web1/user/$1/web/$3
</VirtualHost>
#
    Apache restarts without errors and no entries in error.log, so that's encouraging, but when I call http://login03.chillifire.net/prelude, I get a screen '500 error - Internal Server Error' - obviously the apache configuration is not allright yet.

    Now that's where I am stuck.

    Can an ISPConfig or Apache expert help me out, please?

    Any help is appreciated.

    Thanks

    chillifire
     
    Last edited: Feb 24, 2008
    chillifire, Feb 23, 2008
    #1
  2. chillifire

    chillifire New Member

    Solved: prewikka now opens correctly

    Hi,
    i could never figure why I did not get an error in /var/log/error.log or /var/log/suexec.log (as the error seemed cgi related). I found the relevant hint in this post http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14820 which shows that different error.log is used - one per website. Makes sense.
    In there I found the cue:
    Code:
    [...]
[Sun Feb 24 18:44:35 2008] [error] [client 121.98.128.10] for line in open(self.filename).readlines():
[Sun Feb 24 18:44:35 2008] [error] [client 121.98.128.10] IOError
[Sun Feb 24 18:44:35 2008] [error] [client 121.98.128.10] : 
[Sun Feb 24 18:44:35 2008] [error] [client 121.98.128.10] [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/prewikka/prewikka.conf'
[Sun Feb 24 18:44:35 2008] [error] [client 121.98.128.10] 
[Sun Feb 24 18:44:35 2008] [error] [client 121.98.128.10] Premature end of script headers: prewikka.cgi
    It turns out the configuration file /etc/prewikka/prewikka.conf does not have the correct permissions set. One might be forgiven to think that it comes with the permissions it requires out of the package, but hey.
    Code:
    $ chmod 755 /etc/prewikka/prewikka.conf
    solved the problem

    Thought I close the loop for anyone else running into the same problem.

    Cheers

    chillifire
     
    chillifire, Feb 24, 2008
    #2

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