Modification of Nagios Documentation

[Ethan Galstad]

Thanks for the suggestion!  The docs and sample config file have been 
updated to reflect this.  

On 23 Nov 2005 at 21:52, Horvath Tamas wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> In the latest documentation there is a suggestion to use .htaccess files
> (http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/cgiauth.html).
> 
> According to Apache2 documentation
> (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/htaccess.html#when): "In general,
> you should never use .htaccess files unless you don't have access to the
> main server configuration file."
> 
> I suggest to notice it in the documentation, because if someone is going to
> install Nagios to a dedicated computer, he should not use .htacces (and pay
> the performance penalty because o fit).
> 
> He just has to put something like this to his httpd.conf or equialent:
> 
> 
> ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin /usr/local/nagios/sbin
> 
> <Directory "/usr/local/nagios/sbin">
> Options ExecCGI
> AllowOverride None
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> AuthName "Nagios Access"
> AuthType Basic
> AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
> Require valid-user
> </Directory>"
> 
> Alias /nagios /usr/local/nagios/share
> 
> <Directory "/usr/local/nagios/share">
> Options None
> AllowOverride None
> Order allow,deny
> Allow from all
> AuthName "Nagios Access"
> AuthType Basic
> AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
> Require valid-user
> </Directory>
> 
> Thanks,
> 	Tamas!
> 
> 
> 
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Ethan Galstad,
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