Does anyone have a good solid concise overview of how to do this? I've followed a few general Ubuntu sites that talk about it, but can't seem to make it work.

How far did you get? What're the problems you're having? Please provide more information

Nginx is simple enough:
http://library.linode.com/web-servers/n ... 0.04-lucid

There's even stackscripts for that, AFAIK.

Munin:
http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-monitorin ... with-munin

Sorry, I should elaborate.

I've got a full LEMP stack running my site -- www.jimcarroll.com

(I'm a bit of a closet geek despite my odd job; started on a TRS-80 in 1982...

I used one of the scripts to set it up (Wordpress, Varnish caching, W3TC, etc...)

I've got Munin installed, and I think running....but following this:

http://www.darkcoding.net/software/sett ... on-ubuntu/

I get "

when I run :

sudo -u munin munin-cron


sudo -u munin munin-cron
2012/05/18 19:34:43 [ERROR] Error occured in under [] in the configuration.
ERROR: Failed to parse config file '/etc/munin/munin.conf': [ERROR] Error occured in under [] in the configuration. Please refer to the log if details are missing here.


munin.conf has:

allow ^127\.0\.0\.1$
[jimcarroll.com]
address 127.0.0.1
use_node_name yes
# The next three variables specifies where the location of the RRD
# databases, the HTML output, logs and the lock/pid files. They all
# must be writable by the user running munin-cron. They are all
# defaulted to the values you see here.
#
dbdir /var/lib/munin
htmldir /var/www/jimcarroll/munin
logdir /var/log/munin
rundir /var/run/munin

You'll want to move the host-specific stuff after all of the general configuration. The allow, dbdir, htmldir, logdir, and rundir statements apply to the whole server, and ought to appear before the [jimcarroll.com] heading.

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