[Eug-lug] Cacti tool installation

[larry price]

On 8/24/06, Matthew Jarvis <mattj at bikefriday.com> wrote:
> Anyway, I'm supposed to be able to fire up the interface with:
>
> http://myserver/cacti   but I get a 404 error

is there a mapping from /cacti/ to a directory in your httpd.conf

> So my thinking is that I have one of two problems:
>
> 1. apache doesn't know about cacti because it's in the wrong folder.
> 2. I have to restart apache (which I don't really want to do during the
> day so I'd have to wait until tonight to play with my new toy)
>
> Anyone have any input?
using

apachectl restart

should only take a couple of seconds and it is smart enough to
complete requests in process and issue 503 errors for the requests
that come in while it's waiting to shutdown (503 should cause your
browser to retry after a pause) so unless you configure apache into
uselessness you shouldn't be too scared of hupping the web server
during peak traffic if you need to.