Re: [Apcupsd-users] Error: Cannot open hosts file

[John M. A. <joh...@pe...>]

AWESOME!!! You guys rock! A million thanks to all who replied and from all
your replies I manged to make it work. What I did is simply copy the folder
etc from "c:\apcupsd\etc" and save it directly to "c:\etc".

I hope in the future release that multimon.cgi would be able to read the
hosts.conf from c:\apcupsd\etc\apcupsd which is the default installation
directory rather than creating a link like c:\etc\apcupsd.

Again, thank you so much, guys.

On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 1:08 AM, Chad <ch...@cr...> wrote:

>  An alternative would be to create a symbolic link to the "?:\apcupsd\etc"
> folder as "?:\etc" using the mklink /D command (or sysinternals junction
> cmd for XP) where ? is the install drive letter.  This will allow the
> multimon.cgi script to use the original hosts.conf file
>
> Thanks to Adam for the info!!
>
> Chad.
>
> At 10:52 AM 7/2/2015, you wrote:
>
> It seems that my issues are only with the multimon.cgi file linked to the
> hosts.conf file.  When I run the other cgi files i.e.  upsstats.cgi or
> upsfstats.cgi it works fine.  So, since I only have one UPS I'm monitoring,
> I'll skip using multimon.cgi as it only takes you back to the same sub cgi
> files anyway.
>
> I used the link http://localhost/cgi-bin/upsstats.cgi
>
>
> *From:* Adam Kropelin <ad...@kr...>
> *To:* David Prater <dpr...@ya...>; Apcupsd Discussion List <
> apc...@li...>
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 2, 2015 10:13 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Apcupsd-users] Error: Cannot open hosts file
>
> It looks like on Windows apcupsd is expecting the hosts.conf to be in
> "\etc\apcupsd" ... it is missing the installation directory prefix. If you
> create that directory on the drive from which the web server will be
> running the cgi scripts, it should work...
>
> The CGI scripts are rarely ever used on Windows. If you are looking to
> monitor your UPSes from a Windows (or OS X) workstation, have you
> considered just adding them to the tray applet?
>
> --Adam
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 7:54 AM, David Prater <dpr...@ya...> wrote:
>  I'm having the same issue, so it seems like it's not isolated. I've
> changed all the permissions for the host.conf and both relocated the
> host.conf file into the same web directory AND moved the web directory into
> the same folder as aspupsd.
>
> I can connect to the UPS via apcupsd.exe and I'm receiving statuses from
> the ups, so it's isolated to the CGI file.  I'd love to get this to run.
>
>
>
> From: Jan Ceuleers < jan...@co...>
> To: apc...@li...
> Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2015 7:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [Apcupsd-users] Error: Cannot open hosts file
>
> On 02/07/15 12:02, John Michael Alintano wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply Jan.
> >
> > Yes, I have both hosts.conf and apcupsd.conf located on the same drive
> > with my web page. These files are located on c:\apcupsd\etc\apcupds on
> > my machine. I have also configured hosts.conf similar to what you've
> > suggested but I'm still having the error.
>
> OK, so you've established that the file exists.
>
> But does the account under which the CGI script runs have read access to
> it?
>
>
>
>
>
>
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