Problem getting CGIs to work after upgrade to 2.0b4

[Schmitz, Carsten]

Hi fellow Nagiosians (if thats even a word ;)

I have a problem with my CGIs, they don't work. Thats ALL of them, not just some. What I get is (for example for the service status):


Whoops!

Error: Could not read host and service status information!
[...]


As for the things addressed further down in the (long) error message:

- Yes, Nagios is running (in daemon mode, I see it in ps -ef)

- there are no CGI errros in the log file (some other
  errors that result from my upgrade, I explain below)

- I verified my nagios config files with -v, and get no errors
  (some warnings but no errors)

- I used the rhel rpm (don't ask), so I am sure main program and
  GCI using the same data store


Here's what led to the error:

- I have a working self-compiled nagios 1.x installation on
  machine #1 in /usr/local/nagios (the box is RH 7.3 - shame on me)

- I installed nagios 2.x on machine #2 from the "official" rhel 4
  rpm (this is the installation where the problem occurs), the box
  runs CentOS 4.2 (OS built from RHEL 4 patch 2 sources)

- I can not rewrite all my host and service definitions at this
  time, so I decided to remove /etc/nagios and copy the contents
  of my machine #1's /usr/local/nagios/etc to /etc/nagios

  (please read on, I HAVE read the "Whats New in 2.x" and I am
  taking the config file format changes into account!)

- I adjusted all the path names to match the path names in my
  new installation (perl one liner and verified twice) in all
  config files (nagios.cfg, cgi.cfg etc).

- I stripped the contact_groups from the host group definitions
  according to the Nagios 2.x "Whats New" change document

- I fixed some other small things where Nagios 2.x seems more
  picky than 1.x (in a good way ;)

- I verified my config with -v, I ran nagios in console mode and
  watched it performing checks and sending emails, and I verified
  with ps -ef that it starts up in daemon mode.

- I did NOT so far change any macros (!) to 2.x standards but that
  should not impact the CGIs from showing up, should it?

- I should mention that I see some service checks fail in the log
  file (or console) because I am not yet finished copying and
  adjusting all of my custom plugins.

- There are no errors in my apache error log. I DO see the access
  to the CGIs in the access log, but no errors.

Still, the CGIs don't work. Would anyone kindly have a pointer for me what else to check for?

Many thanks,

Carsten


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