phpLogCon on Orange JeOS

Now that we have rsyslog working on Orange JeOS it sure would be nice to get phpLogCon working so that we could see the logs via a web browser.  Because my application of rsyslog is firewall specific, it deals with a ton of traffic.  So much traffic in fact, that I don’t wanna mess with MySql back end.  MySql tends to slow things down too much.  So, I set up rsyslog to store it’s data to /var/log/syslog and I’m going to set up phpLogCon to pick it up from there. Here’s the play by play:

• yum install httpd php php-gd
• edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and set the “Servername” variable to the name or IP of your machine.
• service httpd start
• chkconfig httpd on
• Allow httpd (port 80)  in iptables with  ”iptables -I RH-Firewall-1-INPUT 3 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 80 --tcp-flags SYN,RST,ACK SYN -j ACCEPT” 
• wget http://www.phplogcon.org/Downloads-req-getit-lid-54.phtml
• cd ~
• tar –zxvf phplogcon-2.6.2.tar.gz
• cd phplogcon-2.6.2
• mkdir /var/www/html/syslog
• cp –a src/* /var/www/html/syslog
• cp contrib/configure.sh /var/www/html/syslog
• cd /var/www/html/syslog
• chmod 777 configure.sh
• ./configure.sh (This will create a file called config.php)
• rm configure.sh
• chmod 666 config.php
• chcon –Rv –type=httpd_sys_content_t /var/www/html/syslog (Note: This changes the selinux config to allow the syslog folder to work with the httpd daemon.)
• chcon –Rv –type=httpd_sys_content_t /var/log/syslog
• chmod 644 /var/log/syslog
• Browse (on another computer) to http://yourservername/syslog . You should see this screen:

Click the word “here” above to begin the configuration.

Now click the Next button.

Again, click the Next button

I took the defaults above to get started. Click the Next button.

The defaults were fine again.  Click Next

1. Finish up with a “chmod 644 config.php”

We’re done.  Now click the word “here” in the above screen and you should see you syslog data.

Good luck and happy logging!