CGI authentication makes me mad

[Tristan-Matthieu Robichaud]

Oh there's something..  since it's on Debian, the path for nagios.cmd is
a bit different ( /var/log/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd )

It executes with no errors. I already did that step while configuring
nagios (created the nagiocmd group and stuff).

Still the same CGI related error messages.

Thank you,

TMR


On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 01:35, Carlito - nagios user wrote:
> 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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