CGI's Won't Work - Output is garbage

[Marc Powell]

Dixie Peterson <mailto:dpeterson3 at san.rr.com> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I recently installed Nagios 1.2 on a system running RedHat Linux 9. 
> The installation went fine, but I can't seem to get the CGI's to
> work.  When I try to run them through the web interface all I get for
> output is gibberish.  When I run them on the command line and monitor
> them with strace, I get errors like this:    
> 
> open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
> directory)
> open("/usr/local/nagios/share/ssi/avail-footer.ssi", O_RDONLY) = -1
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/usr/local/nagios/share/ssi/common-footer.ssi", O_RDONLY) = -1
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)   

It's more likely that your web server just doesn't know what do to with
cgi files and is simply displaying them instead of executing them...
Make sure your web server is properly configured to execute cgi files.
If you're using apache, you probably need to make sure you have the
following --

LoadModule cgi_module         modules/mod_cgi.so
AddModule mod_cgi.c
AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

<Directory /usr/local/nagios/sbin>
        AllowOverride AuthConfig
        Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
        Satisfy All
</Directory>

You'll need to restart apache if you modify httpd.conf of course.

--
Marc 



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