<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7226.0"> <TITLE>Problem with cgi auth with apache2 and nagios2</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  Until yesterday, I had a bare-bones nagios 2 working fine on apache 1.3 - the .htaccess file was working, no problems - I tried to access a cgi, it asked for the uid/pwd, I provided them, and away we went. Yesterday I installed Nagios 2 on a system (SuSe 9.0) with apache2. I made all the appropriate changes to the httpd.conf file, added an .htaccess file to /usr/local/nagios/sbin and used htpasswd2 to create the authuserfile. When I try to access any of the CGI's I get 403:Forbidden - it never bothers to ask me for a uid/pwd pair. I've spent hours scouring the web for a solution (finding quite a few other people with the same problem, but no replies), I've spent hours in the apache IRC channel asking there… and now I'm coming to you. /var/log/apache2/access_log reports 403 1016 (I assume 1016's the error code for the 403 denied message) /var/log/apache2/error_log reports: client denied by server configuration: /user, referer: <A HREF="http://blah/side.htm">http://blah/side.htm</A> (where blah is my server) </BODY> </HTML>