Problem after installation accesing nagios

[Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)]

Hmm, that's strange, on my 2.2.3 server, that module is installed by 
default, otherwise I'd certainly have had some issues as I have about 10 
.htaccess protected directories.

Ah well, keep smiling :)

Andy.

Fermín Galán Márquez wrote:
> Dear Andy,
>
> Finally, it was not related with AuthBasicAuthoritative, but with authz_user
> module. I've found the solution at:
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/users/321797
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best regards,
>
> --------------------
> Fermín Galán Márquez
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> -----Mensaje original-----
> De: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] En nombre de Andy
> Shellam (Mailing Lists)
> Enviado el: lunes, 06 de noviembre de 2006 18:20
> Para: Nagios Users mailinglist
> Asunto: Re: [Nagios-users] Problem after installation accesing nagios
>
> 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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