Is it possible to install loganalyzer work with nginx?

falanca · 24. November 2014

Hi OMV family, I'm very happy with you.

I have a small network at home and want to make a lite and centralized log server over rsyslog.
I was trying to install loganalyzer to see detailed rsyslogs. But apache2 is a dependency and it will be trouble with nginx.
How can I install loganalyzer 4.1.1 to work with nginx? If it's possible, I also want to install phpsysinfo? (I tried but omvweb-gui corrupted because of apache2)
Or do you have any other suggestion?

My system is old Celeron 2.3 Ghz cpu (usage %1)
768 MB ddr ram (usage %10)
478pin biostar mainboard
OMV Kralizec 1.1
works very well so far

datadigger · 24. November 2014

This trouble can be solved easily: Just change the port nginx is listening to (Or the port to which the apache is listening, usually port 80) and you are done. Yon cannot run two webservers on a machine listening to the same tcp port.
The port nginx is listening to can be changed at the web-gui: Go to General Settings and change the port 80 to something different which is not in use, I use port 82. Save this change and sign off from the web-gui and open a SSH session. At the command line enter the command to restart the nginx service with service nginx restart. Then open the web-gui with the trailing port you have choosed with i.e. http://192.168.100.100:82 and you should be there.

May I ask what the reason is for installing a rsyslog facility at home? At work I of course have a rsyslog facility collecting all the logs from Linux or Linux-based equipment, but I never felt the need to install that at home.

falanca · 24. November 2014

Thanks for your reply datadigger, I will try your solution and give feedback.

Debian comes with rsyslog server default, OMV system always running at roof and this is very suitable for log server.
I have standalone PfSense and Prosody jabber server inside of OMV in my network structure. I installed another Pfsense and (unfortunately) windows server in a small company. I want to see of all these systems log with better log wiever.
I'm unemployed but cant give up systems. I like to play Linux systems and this is unfortunately obsession for me.
I hope I could express my feelings...

datadigger · 24. November 2014

Yes of course, thanks for the statement.
I know "obsession" in conjunction with IT very well.... when I stumbled into IT in 1992 I came from a very very different job and spent lots of days and nights to get into it. Build a Novell home network, learned to handle OS/2 and get in touch with the first Suse distro..... exciting times. So I can understand your wish to stay in touch very well.
To say it with REO Speedwagons words: Keep the fire burning and best wishes.

falanca · 25. November 2014

Thanks for your kindly wishes datadigger.

I think, my problem isn't port numbers. I didnt install apache2, nginx must run these things.
I have copied loganalyzer & phpsyinfo into /var/www

here is folder tree
/var/www/loganalyzer
/var/www/phpsysinfo

and I did
chown www-data:www-data * . -Rf
service nginx restart

When I hit http://192.168.100.104:81/loganalyzer/install.php
or https://192.168.100.104:444/loganalyzer/install.php
I got error "404 not found nginx"

in tutorials, they just copying the folder into /var/www
and give permission, then enter the "server ip/loganalyzer/" that's it!
What is my worg?

datadigger · 26. November 2014

It isn't that easy if you want to run loganalyzer as a separate website. If you want it that way, you have to create a separate nginx config file at /etc/nginx/websites-enabled and another one for php-fpm at /etc/php5/fpm/pool.d - but you can try it the easy way: Just run it as a page of the omv website.

Create a subdirectory at /var/www/openmediavault with the name loganalyzer, copy the content of the installation package (Just the content of the src directory) into this new directory and call it with http://<ip.of.the.OMVbox>/loganalyzer and the install script should run. I've just tried it that way and the installation script starts.
I'm not sure if this disturbs the OMV website, but I don't believe that. Under apache it doesn't, I did it that way a lot of times on my website with CMS and forum.

falanca · 28. November 2014

Thank you very much datadigger, it worked!

Is it possible to install loganalyzer work with nginx?

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