PHPSysinfo Installation and Configuration on Debain

PhpSysInfo is an awesome PHP script that displays system and other monitoring information for Linux. phpSysInfo pulls data from /proc and other locations to display on an easy to read page.

On Ubuntu or Debian, install phpsysinfo with:

$ sudo apt-get install phpsysinfo

The config file is then located in:

/etc/phpsysinfo/config.php

Debian / Ubuntu Security concern:

Note that on Debian/Ubuntu installing this package automatically creates a symlink under /var/www/phpsysinfo pointing to /usr/share/phpsysinfo! Visitng http://ipaddress/phpsysinfo should show your page.

This can be further restricted by removing that symlink:

$ sudo rm /var/www/phpsysinfo

And then creating a proper config file such as this which allows localhost access only:

$ sudo nano /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpsysinfo.conf

Alias /phpsysinfo /usr/share/phpsysinfo
<Location /phpsysinfo>
Options None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from localhost
</Location>

Resource Links:

http://mewbies.com/how_to_install_phpsysinfo_nix_tutorial.html

https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/PhpSysInfo