Upgrade from RHES3 to RHES4 and authentication failures with apache

[Andreas Ericsson]

Richard DeWath wrote:
> I planned on upgrading to a better host system and
> since I am on RHES3 and can upgrade to RHES4, I went
> ahead with a standard install.  Apache was upgraded
> from  release 2.0.48 to 2.0.52 on the new system. 
> Everything went well and I copied over the cfg files
> and other plugins.  Nagios starts up and works - the
> problem is with authentication for the website.  The
> first problem I found when trying to authenticate with
> .htaccess/.htpasswd showed up in the httpd error_log
> indicating a MySQL authentication failure.  I did not
> request that during the rpm based install, so I am not
> sure why that has been added.  I fixed that so that
> authentication will use .htaccess/.htpasswd.  That
> seemed to work and I was allowed to the main page. 
> When I went to look at the hosts on the new system I
> was denied access.  After looking around I saw that
> the env was missing all the authentication env
> variables like REMOTE_USER=mysignon
> 
> I rebuilt and re-installed nagios to be sure it was
> correct.  The problem persists.  
> 
> I know this is more an apache http issue, but I cannot
> find any answers about this and why the upgrade has
> caused this problem.  
> 
> If anyone has had this problem or can point me to a
> solution, I would appreciate any help.
> 

This problem is either SELinux specific, or pertains to apache. I 
suggest you thouroughly read the documentation for both and make the 
necessary adjustments to your configuration.

> Richard
> 
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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