Installing Cacti on Debian

# Here are some notes taken during installation of Cacti on Debian 7, on a Cubieboard 2.

#  Install PHP, apache2 and mysql-server first and then install Cacti.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

# Configure mysql server with root password. For the rest of the questions answer Yes.

sudo mysql_secure_installation

# PHP installation (Before Debian 7 Wheezy add php5-suhosin )

 sudo apt-get install php5 php-pear php5-mysql

# Configure PHP installation info from the server by adding the following lines into info.php:

sudo nano /var/www/info.php

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

# Restart Apache to apply the new configuration

sudo service apache2 restart

# Verify that Apache and PHP was installed successfully by entering the following URL
# http://<Ip address of your server>/info.php
# Information regarding the PHP installation is shown in the browser.

# Now it is  time  to install Cacti

sudo apt-get install cacti

# Remove comment ('//') before $url_path and $cacti_session_name last in debian.php file

sudo vi /etc/cacti/debian.php

# Link Cacti Web server configuration to the apache2 config directory. My Apache version is 2.2

sudo ln -s /etc/cacti/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/cacti.conf

# Restart Apache to apply the new configuration

sudo service apache2 restart

# Enter the following URL in your browser  http://<Ip address of your server>/cacti
# Follow the instructions. The user /password is admin/admin
# After having logged in, the web console is ready for configuration of devices and graphs for your devices.