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 801.626.8549