CGI authentication makes me mad

[Carlito - nagios user]

Type this command as root once nagios is running !

chown nagios:nagiocmd /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd 

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of
Tristan-Matthieu Robichaud
Sent: 13 August 2003 01:04
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] CGI authentication makes me mad


Hi peepz,

Please ignore the subject's sarcastic remark, I really have a hard time
making Nagios's web interface CGI auth work. And maby I'm just a little bit
flustered about the absence of a functionnal forum, and also when I
discovered that the mailing list archives on SF.net seems to be broken.

I scupulously read the docs, did my homeworks, got rid of most error
messages. I have a rather good knowledge of CGI and Apache server config,
wich have also been scrupulously followed from the Nagios docs. After a few
days of tremendous efforts, I did'nt find any one that could help me on this
one, or any related documentation. 

Here's the prob. The htaccess auth works fine, but once logged in, it still
complains with the standard "It appears as through you do not have
permission to view information..." followed by the much more standard "If
you believe this is an error (of course i do!), check the HTTP server
requirements for accessing this CGI (yeah right) and check the authorization
options in your CGI configuration file). On this subject, if I turn off this
darn CGI authentication in cgi.cfg, shoudn't Nagios allow me to view every
hosts? Well it doesnt. 

Nagios version is 1.1 (Debian packaged, if that's any help) turning on a
freshly updated Debian "unstable" installation. Apache is 1.3.27 and works
fine and all. 

here's my apache.conf

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/nagios /usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios
ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin /usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios <DirectoryMatch
/usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios/>
	Options ExecCGI

	AllowOverride AuthConfig
	order allow,deny
	Allow From All

	AuthName "Nagios Access"
	AuthType Basic
	AuthUserFile /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users
	require valid-user
</DirectoryMatch>

Alias /netsaint /usr/share/nagios/htdocs/
Alias /nagios /usr/share/nagios/htdocs/
<DirectoryMatch /usr/share/nagios/htdocs/>
	Options FollowSymLinks

	AllowOverride AuthConfig
	Order Allow,Deny
	Allow From All

	AuthName "Nagios Access"
	AuthType Basic
	AuthUserFile /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users
	require valid-user
</DirectoryMatch>

Anyone have a slight idea of what could be slipping my mind?

thanks

-- 
Tristan-Matthieu Robichaud <tmr at iscream.net>
iScream.NET



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