{"id":268,"date":"2014-12-08T13:13:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T13:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flat-planet.net\/?p=268"},"modified":"2014-12-08T14:07:27","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T14:07:27","slug":"using-rpi-monitor-with-your-own-webserver-nginx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Using RPi-Monitor with your own webserver (Nginx)"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I recently moved this site<\/a> to a RPI for hosting purposes, I though it would be a good idea to have a nice web page to monitor the current status of the box. Some googling later and I found the excellent RPi-Monitor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

By default it has it’s own webserver, and it is not recommended to use anything other then that, but running a second webserver seemed a little bit untidy to my thinking so I set it to run on Nginx instead.<\/p>\n

The actual changes were quite simple, with one or two gotcha’s.<\/p>\n

RPi-Monitor stores the webpage in \/usr\/share\/rpimonitor\/web<\/code> by default. Rather then play with that I just created a symbolic link between the root of the webserver and that point:<\/p>\n

\r\nln -s \/usr\/share\/rpimonitor\/web \/var\/www\/rpimonitor\r\n<\/pre>\n
and that is sorted.<\/p>\n
Next up is the configuration change to the rpimonitor daemon – config file located in \/etc\/rpimonitor\/daemon.conf. We need to set it into no-server mode and also change the user, as I’ve disabled the default ‘pi’ account <\/a>on this box.<\/p>\n
\r\n# daemon.noserver=1\r\n# Define that rpimonitor shouldn't start web server (default:0)\r\n# Note: A symbolic link from \/var\/lib\/rpimonitor\/stat to\r\n# \/usr\/share\/rpimonitor\/stat may be required\r\ndaemon.noserver=1\r\n\r\n# Define user used to run the server process (default:pi)\r\n# Note: If user is not existing, process will run with uid=1000\r\ndaemon.user=rpi-monitor\r\n#\r\n# daemon.group=pi\r\n# Define group used to run the server process (default:pi)\r\n# Note: If group is not existing, process will run with gid=1000\r\ndaemon.group=rpi-monitor\r\n#\r\n<\/pre>\n
Restart the service, and you should be able to access it from http:\/\/my-website.com\/rpi-monitor<\/p>\n
\r\n$ sudo service rpimonitor restart\r\n<\/pre>\n
\"RPI-Monitor<\/a>However there is a slight issue in that the datastore is inaccessible to the webserver, so statistics are unavailable with error “File stat\/uptime.rrd is not a valid RRD archive”. To resolve this we need to go back to the daemon.conf<\/code> file and move the datastore to somewhere under the root directory of the website<\/p>\n
\r\n# daemon.datastore=\/var\/lib\/rpimonitor\r\n# Define the data storage directory (Default:\/var\/lib\/rpimonitor)\r\ndaemon.datastore=\/var\/www\/rpimonitor\r\n<\/pre>\n
Restart the service again and all is worky.<\/p>\n
\r\n$ sudo service rpimonitor restart\r\n<\/pre>\n
\"RPI-Monitor<\/a>Note: you could also just move the webroot in the same way, rather then using the symbolic link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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