Debian, Nagios, CGI, Good config... Still errors !!

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Matthijs Macaré
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 6:05 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Debian, Nagios, CGI, Good config... Still errors
> !!
> 
> After fixing a MySQL-bug in the 40.23-1 and upgraded to 4.0.23-3 I ran
> into
> following problem and I did before with the text-version.
> 
> Anyone else having problems getting Nagios cgi scripts to run on Debian
> Sarge.  I installed it this and previous week but it's not running so
> good.
> But I
> 
> I get the message:
> "It appears as though you do not have permission to view information for
> any of the hosts you requested... If you believe this is an error, check
> the HTTP server authentication requirements for accessing this CGI and
> check the authorization options in your CGI configuration file."
> 
> No matter what I've tried, I can't get around this, whether I enable or
> disable authentication.  Anyone know if the newest deb package for
> Nagios is broken?
> 
> I currently have authentication turned on.  It appears to be working
> fine, as I am requested to log in with the nagiosadmin account when
> first accessing the web site or see "tactical overview".  But then, any
> link
> that accesses
> status.cgi (and some others) come back with the above message.
> 

Just some common pointers to maybe get you going in the right direction:

Do you have the .htaccess file in nagios' sbin directory or just the share directory? It needs to be in the sbin directory.

When you log in, does nagios show you as logged in with that username? (upper left, Logged In As <fill in the blank>)

Is the above user a member of the contactgroup for the hosts that you are expecting to see?

Have you reviewed the documentation on configuring authorization for the CGI's to make sure you didn't miss a step? http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/cgiauth.html Since you've installed from a package, you'll probably need to do some mental transformations to get the paths right.

--
Marc 



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