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Hi,

I'm trying to install OCS Inventory for the first time.  I've been following the "Setting up an OCS Inventory Server" instructions in the manual, I've completed every step successfully as far as I can tell, but when I browse to the /ocs-reports/ page on my server, I get an otherwise blank page with the error message in the title.  The troubleshooting section of the manual (as well as the best information I could find by searching around) suggest that this is an issue with my apache configuration.  That's very probable; I'm a relative newbie to configuring web servers.  Is there an example configuration I should compare against? And/or, does that error message suggest to anyone that I've missed or err'd on a particular step of the setup?

Answer 1

Or in page 14 of my Answers

Or https://ask.ocsinventory-ng.org/13643/i-cant-deploy-the-ocs-inventory-ng-server

The 2 conf files will be supplied during installation = you could find them in tgz

OCSNG_UNIX_SERVER_2.X.X.tar.gz

Answer 2

A smart and efficient way to setup an OCS Inventory server is to follow a Debian tuto: there is many tuto on this forum. (I write my own tuto).

But, it's also mandatory to have a good knowledge of Apache2 : settings using conf files and virtualhost instructions, look of status files (access.log), ...

OCS Inventory reports server provide 2 conf files for Apache2 (it's mandatory to adjust on of them with database settings ...). Then you need to restart Apache2. After you need to verify access.log file as inventory.log from OCS Inventory ...

Answer 3

Thanks for that, Jacquesh.  Can you please provide a link to your tutorial and let me know where I might find those provided conf files?

Answer 4

Thanks Jacquesh,

I repeated my install following your instructions.  It looks like one or more of the perl modules did not install correctly when I installed them with apt as per the manual, but doing it with CPAN worked.  (Specifically, I think it was Apache2::SOAP, Plack::HANDLER, and XML::Entities)  My server is showing me the SQL configuration page now and I believe I can proceed with the installation from here.  Thanks again for the help.