** NEED HELP ** TRYING TO SOLVE THIS ERROR FOR 3 DAYS

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Wasif Khan wrote:

> *Hi, All,
>
> I am new to Nagios.  I have followed the documentation.  Installed Nagios on 
> Red Hat 7.0, IBM HTTP Apache Server.  After all configurations, 
> installations, I ran preflight as follows:-
>
> ./nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
>
> It ran find and report 0 errors and 0 warnings.
>
> I went to the website http://linuxtest/nagios/ and got main screen.  When I 
> click any link on the side (eg. View Config, Status etc..) I get the 
> following error.
>
>
> ===================================================
>
> Error: Could not open CGI config file './usr/local/nagios/etc/cgi.cfg' for 
> reading!
>
> Here are some things you should check in order to resolve this error:
>
>
> Make sure you've installed a CGI config file in its proper location. See the 
> error message about for details on where the CGI is expecting to find the 
> configuration file. A sample CGI configuration file (named cgi.cfg) can be 
> found in the sample-config/ subdirectory of the Nagios source code 
> distribution.
> Make sure the user your web server is running as has permission to read the 
> CGI config file.
>
> Make sure you read the documentation on installing and configuring Nagios 
> thoroughly before continuing. If all else fails, try sending a message to one 
> of the mailing lists. More information can be found at http://www.nagios.org.
>
> ===========================================================
>
> I am not sure what to do and where to look.  All CGI are in right directory.
>
> Would really appreciate your help.
>
>
>

Did you add the "Script Alias" and "Alias" entries in Apache's config for 
Nagios?

-- 
-sg


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