CGI permissions make me mad also! HELP!!!!

[Hochberg, Keith]

Did you check out your cgi.cfg in /whereever nagios is/etc/?  Make sure
you have the user you are logged in as on the Web GUI specified for
access or a '*' meaning all users.
 
-Keith

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Rick_Blair at fws.gov [mailto:Rick_Blair at fws.gov] 
	Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 11:20 AM
	To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
	Subject: [Nagios-users] CGI permissions make me mad also!
HELP!!!!
	
	

	When I try to access the CGI from the link on the nagios web
page I am getting the error: 
	
	                                        It appears as though you
do not have permission to view information for any of the hosts you
requested... 

	If you believe this is an error, check the HTTP server
authentication requirements for accessing this CGI
	and check the authorization options in your CGI configuration
file.



	I have been running nagios 1.0 for 5 months on Red Hat 7.3.  I
built rpms from the tar balls. 
	
	Everything was working fine.........       Then I upgraded to
nagios 1.1, again building the rpms from the tar balls. 
	
	Now I get the    "It appears as though you do not have
permission to view information for any of the hosts you requested... " 
	
	Then I down-graded back to nagios 1.0 and I still get the above
error!   Even though I am using the same configs from the server that
operated for 5 months without any problem! 
	
	I then went to my lab where I now realize I should have started.

	
	I installed nagios 1.0 on one server and 1.1 on another and
moved over all of my configs.     Same results!!! 
	
	Here are the possibe problems I have investigate: 
	
	1.  .htaccess works on the main web page so I have to assume it
also works for the CGI directory since I see no error messages for
httpd.  I have had our web developer look at my Apache configs to make
sure I am not crazy!!  He says my Apache configs are fine. 
	
	2.  If I run the CGI scripts from the command line using my
username,  they generate html source that can be loaded into a browser
and successfully viewed with all the ouput and no error.   So I assume
that my cgi.cfg file, which I haven't touched!  is still correct. 
	
	3. I have toyed around with the permisions for the directory
which contains the nagios.cmd file.  I have followed the on line
documentation step by step in this regaurd and I still get the same
results. 
	
	4. The only conclusion I can come to is a file permission
somewhere.  I have made all of my CGIs 755 and everything is owned by
nagios:apache.  In my lab environment I have experimented with every
possible combination of permissions, turning off authentication, using
the nagiocmd group with apache and nagios as members as suggested by the
documentation etc. etc. etc. etc.. 
	
	Meanwhile nagios is running and collecting its data though I can
not access it via CGI. 
	
	Help, Help Help!!!!!!!! 
	
	
	
	
	Rick Blair
	Network Engineer
	USFW
	303.202.2687

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