Problems with HTTP-Authorization/Authentication

[Hendrik Baecker]

Hi Rene,

do you have a .htaccess file in your cgi directory? (f.e. 
/usr/local/nagios/sbin/)

Rene Fertig schrieb:

>Hello.
>
>I have set up a new server with Nagios 2.0 and Apache 2. Both are running, CGI 
>and authorization are set up. When I access the web-interface I have been 
>asked for authentication. I can enter user and password and get access, but 
>nagios tells me always "Logged in as ?". So I cannot see anything.
>In the apache-log-files I can see, that I logged in successfully, but it 
>seems, that nagios didn't get these information.
>
>Of cause, in cgi.cfg "use_authentication=1" is set, I have put a .htaccess 
>file into /usr/local/nagios/share with the following content:
>
>AuthName "Nagios Access"
>AuthType Basic
>AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
>require valid-user
>
>The file /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users has been created with htpasswd2 
>and the users are in contacts.cfg
>
>If I enter a wrong user and/or password at the login I get an error message 
>and if I cancel the login I get "Authentication required!" So far everything 
>works as expected, except the nagios didn't recognize me :-(
>
>I've set up nagios (1.x) more than once, so I think I can handle that...
>
>BTW: the server runs SuSE Linux 10.0 with an apache2 from the distribution, 
>nagios is compiled by myself from the tarball.
>
>Please, can someone help me to find the problem?
>
>Bye, Rene
>
>
>
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