n00b trying to set up on freebsd

[Kurt Buff]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 14:13, Scott Lambert <lambert at lambertfam.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:03:49AM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote:
>> I'm trying to install nagios on freebsd, and can't get to the point of
>> getting lynx on the host to talk to http://192.168.8.20/nagios - I get
>> a 403 "You don't have permission to access /nagios/ on this server."
>>
>> I'm beating my brains out on this one, and don't know what I'm doing
>> wrong. I'm sure it's something really simple I'm overlooking, because
>> just browsing http://192.168.8.20 gets a response. Unfortunately there
>> isn't a quick install guide for freebsd, so I'm having to do some
>> translation of the docs.
>>
>> Any help much appreciated.
>
> Rather than guessing, you might want to take a look at what Apache
> thinks is wrong:
>
> Access the page and then:
>
> sudo tail /var/log/httpd-error.log
>
> It should pretty much tell you what is wrong.
>
> Is lynx asking you for a username and password?
>
> Is there some reason you didn't follow exactly the instructions
> suggested by the pkg-message for the nagios port with regard to the
> Apache configuration?  I don't see anything particularly wrong with your
> config, but it may be needlessly over complex.
>
> I believe in getting things working according how the port maintainer
> suggests. The port maintainers tend to do a good job of handing you a
> good basic configuration which works.
>
> Once that works, I make the changes needed for my site one step at a
> time, testing each change individually.
>
> --
> Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
> lambert at lambertfam.org

Just so you know, the only things I modifed in the default httpd.conf
were the following  parameters:

     Listen is now 'Listen 192.168.8.20:80'
     ServerAdmin is now 'ServerAdmin ifteam at example.com
     ServerName is now 'ServerName loki.example.com:80'

The page does indeed ask for auth when configured with the stanzas I listed.

I've been examining /var/log/httpd-error.log, and found the following,
with the configuration I first listed:

     [client 192.168.8.20] Directory index forbidden by Options
directive: /usr/local/www/nagios/

Following your suggestion, I have removed those stanzas, and replaced
them with the ones I found in
/usr/ports/net-mgmt/nagios/work/pkg-message, and the results are
slightly different. Namely, I get a 404 message saying

     The requested URL /nagios was not found on this server.

and /var/log/httpd-error.log says

     [error] [client 192.168.8.20] File does not exist:
/usr/local/www/apache22/data/nagios

If I then add

     Alias /nagios /usr/local/www/nagios/

to the end of httpd.conf, I again get an auth prompt in lynx, and
again I get the error in httpd-error.log:

     [client 192.168.8.20] Directory index forbidden by Options
directive: /usr/local/www/nagios/


So, I'm led to believe that I'm making a bonehead error in httpd.conf,
but I can't figure it out.

Kurt

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