Problem after installation accesing nagios

[Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)]

On Apache 2.2 you need to have an Authoritative authorisation handler.

Lookup the AuthBasicAuthoritiative (I think) directive in the Apache 
documentation, and this needs to go in the .htaccess file (or httpd.conf 
file) where the htpasswd.users file is referenced.

(eg.
AuthUserFile /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users
Require valid-users
AuthBasicAuthoritative on
) etc.

Andy.

Fermín Galán Márquez wrote:
> 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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