500 Internal Server Error

[Arno Lehmann]

Hello.

Andrew Thomas wrote:

> 
> Hi,
>  
> I'm having problems with Nagios.
> I've installed it, and i can access it www.glxhost.com/nagios/ 
> <http://www.glxhost.com/nagios/>.

Works from here, too.
I'm sure you've got proper access lists set up for apache?

> However, whenever i try and run any scripts, all i get is 500 Internal 
> Server error.

this means that the cgi commands could not be executed properly.
Look into the web servers log file, aspecially the error log.

> When i look at the scripts in nano i just get lots of letters and 
> jumbled numbers- it doesn't resemble any code- is this right?

They should resemble machine code :-)
Nagios cgis are not scripts.
Probably this is your mistake.
You should verify your apache setup. The nagios cgis can not be executed 
by any script interpreter.

Arno

> I've got GD installed, and have started it with service nagios start
>  
>  
>  
>  

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Arno Lehmann                  http://www.its-lehmann.de


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