Newbie question!

[vivek sharma sharma]

Are you trying the same in explorer.If it is so have you configured authentication for cgi.
If you ahve and after giving password u r getting this error then try disabling the authentication by removing the .htaccess from /usr/local/nagios/share and /usr/local/nagios/sbin .

Thanks.
Vivek

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 Gerard Marcel wrote :
>Nagios is running under user nagios and group nagios.  The
>/usr/local/nagios is owned by nagios:nagios.
>
>Regards,
>
>GM
>
>
>On 2 Mar 2005 20:44:46 -0000, vivek sharma sharma
><vivek_222 at rediffmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  Hi,
> >      U can check on the permissions given to that directory and moreover
> > have u made nagio user and group or not.
> >  It should be there.Check out.
> >
> >  Thanks
> >  Vivek
> >
> >
> >  On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 Gerard Marcel wrote :
> >
> >  >I am a newbie and I have been unable to shake the error below:
> >  >
> >  >Whoops!
> >  >
> >  >Error: Could not open CGI config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/cgi.cfg'
> >  >for reading!
> >  >
> >  >Here are some things you should check in order to resolve this error:
> >  >
> >  >    1. Make sure you've installed a CGI config file in its proper
> >  >location. See the error message about for details on where the CGI is
> >  >expecting to find the configuration file. A sample CGI configuration
> >  >file (named cgi.cfg) can be found in the sample-config/ subdirectory
> >  >of the Nagios source code distribution.
> >  >    2. Make sure the user your web server is running as has permission
> >  >to read the CGI config file.
> >  >
> >  >Make sure you read the documentation on installing and configuring
> >  >Nagios thoroughly before continuing. If all else fails, try sending a
> >  >message to one of the mailing lists. More information can be found at
> >  >http://www.nagios.org.
> >  >
> >  >I have read the most of the documentation so far.  this error occurs
> >  >when I try  to run a script on web interface.  All of the files are
> >  >in their correct/default location.
> >  >
> >  >The documentation says that I am supposed to get config files from the
> >  >plugins installed, but I can't find any so I am using the samples that
> >  >come with nagios.  I have changed the samples to match my environment.
> >  >  My apache is running as user apache and it is a member of the nagios
> >  >group.
> >  >
> >  >Nagios-2.0.b2
> >  >pluggins 1.4
> >  >
> >  >TIA,
> >  >
> >  >GM
> >  >
> >  >
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