Problem after installation accesing nagios

[Fermín Galán Márquez]

Hello,

My name is Fermín Galán and I've discovered Nagios recently. I'm trying
using it to monitor some devices in my network.

However, I've got a problem after installation (I'm using Debian, so I
installed with 'apt-get install nagios-mysql'). During the aumatic APT
configuration procedure, I got the following warning message:

There is no htpasswd command, so I can't create the password file
for you.  If you want to use nagios with apache You will have to figure
out a way to create a htpasswd file yourself.  If you've chosen
to configure apache (or some other web server) manually, you can safely
disregard this.  Otherwise, the htpasswd file should be called:
        /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users
and be mode 0640, owned by root, group www-data.
        chown root:www-data /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users || true
        chmod 0640 /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users || true

I followed the instructions to set the access file for nagiosadmin user, so
I've now a htpasswd.users file in the right location, with the righ owner
and permissions:

pcopt3:/usr/share/nagios/htdocs# ls -l /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users
-rw-r----- 1 root www-data 26 2006-11-06 11:16 /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users

Now when accesing to http://localhost/nagios I get the usual authorization
dialog in my browser. However, I didn't get access. The error message I got
in apache2 error log is the following:

access to /nagios failed, reason: require directives present and no
Authoritative handler.

I'd like to point that the problem doesn't seem to be due to password
mismatch (because in that case the error message will be: "user nagiosadmin:
authentication failure for "/nagios": Password Mismatch"

I'm using apache2 with the shiped configuartion in its debian package
(apache2 version: 2.2.3-3). Regarding Nagios versions:

pcopt3:/usr/share/nagios/htdocs# dpkg -l | grep nagios
ii  nagios-common                    1.4-2                      A
host/service/network monitoring and manage
ii  nagios-mysql                     1.4-2                      A
host/service/network monitoring and manage
ii  nagios-plugins                   1.4.3.0cvs.20060707-3      Plugins for
the nagios network monitoring an
ii  nagios-plugins-basic             1.4.3.0cvs.20060707-3      Plugins for
the nagios network monitoring an
ii  nagios-plugins-standard          1.4.3.0cvs.20060707-3      Plugins for
the nagios network monitoring an

Is this a know issue? How could I solve the problem, please?

Thanks in advance! :)

Best regards,

--------------------
Fermín Galán Márquez
CTTC - Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya
Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia, Av. del Canal Olímpic s/n, 08860
Castelldefels, Spain
Room 1.02
Tel : +34 93 645 29 12 
Fax : +34 93 645 29 01
Email address: fermin.galan at cttc.es 

PD. Sorry for the incovenience in the case I were asking a stupid question,
but I'm not an expert in apache or nagios :)


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