I saw in the list archives that someone recently asked about using newer versions of Linux with Observium.

I am not an Apache expert, but I got it working by simply changing to "Require all granted" in the recommended Observium config:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html

root@observium:/opt/observium/includes# cat /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>

ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

DocumentRoot /opt/observium/html

<Directory />

Options FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride None

</Directory>

<Directory /opt/observium/html/>

Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

AllowOverride All

Require all granted

</Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

LogLevel warn

CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

ServerSignature On

</VirtualHost>

I also had to manually enable the php5-mcrypt module:


sudo php5enmod mcrypt


sudo service apache2 restart

I hope this was helpful!

Tristan

Tristan Rhodes
Network Engineer

Weber State University