<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2604" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=616135921-04032005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Actually, that's not the problem. apache is in the same group as the nagios user called 'nagcmd'. Here's the solution to my problem:</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=616135921-04032005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=616135921-04032005> <P><FONT size=2>Maybe the missing / at the end of /usr/local/nagios/share in </FONT></P> <P><FONT size=2>Alias nagios "/usr/local/nagios/share"</FONT></P> <P><FONT size=2>and</FONT></P> <P><FONT size=2>Options None should at least be Options Indexes</FONT></P> <P><FONT size=2>if you want to view index files</FONT></P> <P></SPAN><SPAN class=616135921-04032005><FONT size=2>Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></P> <P><SPAN class=616135921-04032005><FONT size=2><BR>Brent</FONT></SPAN></P></DIV> <STYLE>  </STYLE> <BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=616135921-04032005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff> </FONT></SPAN>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Mark E. Donaldson<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 03, 2005 8:31 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Brent Ryan; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Nagios-users] Fedora 2 /Apache 2 /nagios/ Permission issue<BR><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=297142603-04032005>Brent - you answered your own question. You are running apache as user "apache". The apache user does not have permissions to the /usr/local/nagios/share directory. Try:</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=297142603-04032005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=297142603-04032005>chown -R apache:nagios /usr/local/nagios/share </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=297142603-04032005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=297142603-04032005>and see if that helps</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Brent Ryan<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:15 AM<BR><B>To:</B> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Nagios-users] Fedora 2 /Apache 2 /nagios/ Permission issue<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV><SPAN class=313534216-03032005><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm running <FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3> Apache/2.0.51 (Fedora) Server<SPAN class=381400517-03032005> </SPAN>and I've followed all of the documentation<SPAN class=381400517-03032005> and I've set nagios up before on other distributions of linux, but I'm n</SPAN>ot sure what the problem is <SPAN class=381400517-03032005>here </SPAN>and I've read in some forums that others have had issues with getting Nagios to work on Fedora Linux. <SPAN class=381400517-03032005>The error I get when navigating to <A href="http://localhost:8080/nagios/">http://localhost:8080/nagios/</A> is</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=313534216-03032005><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><SPAN class=381400517-03032005> <H1>Forbidden</H1> <P>You don't have permission to access /nagios/ on this server.</P> <P> </P></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=313534216-03032005><SPAN class=381400517-03032005>httpd is running as user 'apache'</SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=313534216-03032005><SPAN class=381400517-03032005></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=313534216-03032005>The apache error log has:</SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=313534216-03032005>[Thu Mar 03 09:42:44 2005] [error] Directory index forbidden by rule: /usr/local/nagios/share<BR></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=313534216-03032005></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=313534216-03032005>Any ideas on this or how to fix it?<SPAN class=381400517-03032005> More information about my setup is below:</SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=313534216-03032005><SPAN class=381400517-03032005></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=313534216-03032005><SPAN class=381400517-03032005><STRONG>/usr/local/nagios</STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=313534216-03032005><SPAN class=381400517-03032005>drwxrwxr-x 2 nagios nagios 4096 Mar 2 18:38 bin<BR>drwxr-xr-x 3 nagios nagios 4096 Mar 3 08:59 etc<BR>drwxr-xr-x 2 nagios nagios 4096 Mar 2 18:46 libexec<BR>drwxrwxr-x 11 nagios nagios 4096 Mar 2 18:34 nagios-2.0b2<BR>-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 5765120 Mar 2 18:25 nagios-2.0b2.tar<BR>drwxrwxrwx 10 nagios nagios 4096 Mar 2 18:45 nagios-plugins-1.4<BR>-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 4208640 Mar 2 18:25 nagios-plugins-1.4.tar<BR>drwxrwxr-x 2 nagios nagios 4096 Mar 3 08:46 sbin<BR>drwxrwxr-x 9 nagios nagios 4096 Mar 3 09:18 share<BR>drwxrwxr-x 3 nagios nagios 4096 Mar 2 18:38 var</SPAN></DIV></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=381400517-03032005><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>httpd.conf has the following at the bottom:</STRONG></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=381400517-03032005><FONT face=Arial size=2>ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin "/usr/local/nagios/sbin"<BR><Directory "/usr/local/nagios/sbin"><BR># SSLRequireSSL<BR> Options ExecCGI<BR> AllowOverride AuthConfig<BR> Order allow,deny<BR> Allow from all<BR># Order deny,allow<BR># Deny from all<BR># Allow from 127.0.0.1<BR></Directory></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=381400517-03032005><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alias /nagios/ "/usr/local/nagios/share"<BR><Directory "/usr/local/nagios/share"><BR># SSLRequireSSL<BR> Options None<BR> AllowOverride AuthConfig<BR> Order allow,deny<BR> Allow from all<BR># Order deny,allow<BR># Deny from all<BR># Allow from 127.0.0.1<BR></Directory></FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=381400517-03032005><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=381400517-03032005><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=381400517-03032005><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=381400517-03032005><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=381400517-03032005><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brent</FONT></SPAN></DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><FONT color=#0000ff> <P align=center><FONT face=Tahoma 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