Where does nikto tool store its default reports?

Question

I ran the nikto security scan tool against one of our dev sites.

perl nikto.pl -h mydevsitename

The output mentioned

7646 requests: 14 error(s) and 3 item(s) reported on remote host

None of the errors were printed on the screen, where can I find more info about these errors that it indicated? or where does it stores its reports by default?

Check your `nikto.conf` file for the location. The manual explains: https://cirt.net/nikto2-docs/configuration.html — schroeder, Oct 13 '16 at 20:50

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 14 '16 at 11:50

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Try this:

perl nikto.pl -verbose -h example.com

Also look up -output parameter in nikto manual.

edited Dec 14 '16 at 11:50

Anders

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answered Dec 14 '16 at 10:33

JacekM

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 15 '16 at 07:32

Increase the verbosity while launching the command.

nikto -Display -verbose -host example.com

Also if you are using a nix system you can navigate to

/etc/nikto.conf

Here you can find all the nikto related files. You can find something like this:

*Location of Nikto*  
EXECDIR=/var/lib/nikto   
*Location of plugin dir*  
PLUGINDIR=/var/lib/nikto/plugins  
*Location of database dir*    
DBDIR=/var/lib//nikto/databases  
*Location of template dir*  
TEMPLATEDIR=/var/lib/nikto/templates  
*Location of docs dir*  
DOCDIR=/var/lib/nikto/docs

score -1 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 14 '16 at 11:50

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You should run:

perl nikto.pl -h example.com > outputfile.txt

Then it will be written in outputfile.txt.

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answered Oct 15 '16 at 09:11

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That wont work since it will just add to output file what it prints on screen which is "7646 requests: 14 error(s) and 3 item(s) reported on remote host" . I need to see actual detail information on those errors. – pal4life Oct 17 '16 at 16:42

Where does nikto tool store its default reports?

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