CGI authentication makes me mad

Tristan-Matthieu Robichaud tmr at iscream.net
Wed Aug 13 01:04:25 CEST 2003


Hi peepz,

Please ignore the subject's sarcastic remark, I really have a hard time
making Nagios's web interface CGI auth work. And maby I'm just a little
bit flustered about the absence of a functionnal forum, and also when I
discovered that the mailing list archives on SF.net seems to be broken.

I scupulously read the docs, did my homeworks, got rid of most error
messages. I have a rather good knowledge of CGI and Apache server
config, wich have also been scrupulously followed from the Nagios docs.
After a few days of tremendous efforts, I did'nt find any one that could
help me on this one, or any related documentation. 

Here's the prob. The htaccess auth works fine, but once logged in, it
still complains with the standard "It appears as through you do not have
permission to view information..." followed by the much more standard
"If you believe this is an error (of course i do!), check the HTTP
server requirements for accessing this CGI (yeah right) and check the
authorization options in your CGI configuration file). On this subject,
if I turn off this darn CGI authentication in cgi.cfg, shoudn't Nagios
allow me to view every hosts? Well it doesnt. 

Nagios version is 1.1 (Debian packaged, if that's any help) turning on a
freshly updated Debian "unstable" installation. Apache is 1.3.27 and
works fine and all. 

here's my apache.conf

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/nagios /usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios
ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin /usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios
<DirectoryMatch /usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios/>
	Options ExecCGI

	AllowOverride AuthConfig
	order allow,deny
	Allow From All

	AuthName "Nagios Access"
	AuthType Basic
	AuthUserFile /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users
	require valid-user
</DirectoryMatch>

Alias /netsaint /usr/share/nagios/htdocs/
Alias /nagios /usr/share/nagios/htdocs/
<DirectoryMatch /usr/share/nagios/htdocs/>
	Options FollowSymLinks

	AllowOverride AuthConfig
	Order Allow,Deny
	Allow From All

	AuthName "Nagios Access"
	AuthType Basic
	AuthUserFile /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users
	require valid-user
</DirectoryMatch>

Anyone have a slight idea of what could be slipping my mind?

thanks

-- 
Tristan-Matthieu Robichaud <tmr at iscream.net>
iScream.NET



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