The first thing we need to do is go back to our prompt and install the Zabbix web frontend packages.

# yum install zabbix-web zabbix-web-mysql

With the installation of our Zabbix-web package, Apache was installed too, so we need to start Apache first and make sure it will come online after a reboot:

# chkconfig httpd on; service start httpd
# systemctl start httpd; systemctl enable httpd (for RHEL 7)

Remember we have a firewall, so the same rule applies here. We need to open the port for the web server to be able to see our Zabbix frontend. Edit the /etc/sysconfig/iptables firewall file and add after the line with dport 22 in the next line:

# -A INPUT -m state –state NEW -m tcp -p tcp –dport 80 -j ACCEPT

Users of RHEL 7 can run the following lines:

# firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http

The following screenshot shows the firewall configuration:

Now that the firewall is adjusted, you can save and restart the firewall:

# iptables-save
# service iptables restart
# firewall-cmd --reload (If you run RHEL 7)

Now edit the Zabbix configuration file with the PHP setting. Uncomment the option for the timezone and fill in the correct timezone:

# vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/zabbix.conf
php_value date.timezone Europe/Brussels

It is now time to reboot our server and see if everything comes back online with our Zabbix server configured like we intended it to. The reboot here is not necessary but it's a good test to see if we did a correct configuration of our server:

# reboot

Now let's see if we get to see our Zabbix server. Go to the URL of our Zabbix server that we just have installed:

# http://<ip of the Zabbix server>/zabbix

On the first page, we see our welcome screen. Here, we can just click Next:

Next screen, Zabbix will do a check of the PHP settings. Normally they should be fine as Zabbix provides a file with all correct settings. We only had to change the timezone parameter, remember? In case something goes wrong, go back to the zabbix.conf file and check the parameters:

Next, we can fill in our connection details to connect to the database. If you remember, we did this already when we installed the server. Don't panic, it's completely normal. Zabbix, as we will see later, can be setup in a modular way so the frontend and the server both need to know where the database is and what the login credentials are. Press Test connection and when you get an OK just press Next again:

Next screen, we have to fill in some Zabbix server details. Host and port should already be filled in; if not, put the correct IP and port in the fields. The field Name is not really important for the working of our Zabbix server but it's probably better to fill in a meaningful name here for your Zabbix installation:

Now our setup is finished, and we can just click Next till we get our login screen. The Username and Password are standard the first time we set up the Zabbix server and are Admin for Username and zabbix for the Password: