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

[Subhendu Ghosh]

Can the web server process read the cgi.cfg file? - check the file and 
directory permissions.

-sg

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Wasif Khan wrote:

> Yep.  both enteries are there.
>
>> From: Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh at sghosh.org>
>> To: Wasif Khan <wasifkhan007 at msn.com>
>> CC: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] ** NEED HELP ** TRYING TO SOLVE THIS ERROR FOR 
>> 3 DAYS
>> Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 22:09:42 -0400 (EDT)
>> 
>> 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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