Install difficulty

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 08:32:43AM -0700, Jim Miller wrote:
>    Yes. I could be going down the wrong path but, how does the Nagios install
>    know what the document root of the webserver is? It would seem to me that
>    there should be some reference to nagios in the document root so the
>    webserver know where to direct the requests, or does nagios not work that
>    way?

No, generally, you have to tell your apache where to look.  I have this
in my /etc/httpd/nagios.conf:

# SAMPLE CONFIG SNIPPETS FOR APACHE WEB SERVER
# Last Modified: 11-26-2005
#
# This file contains examples of entries that need
# to be incorporated into your Apache web server
# configuration file.  Customize the paths, etc. as
# needed to fit your system.

ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin "/appl/nagios/sbin"

<Directory "/appl/nagios/sbin">
#  SSLRequireSSL
   Options ExecCGI
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
#  Order deny,allow
#  Deny from all
#  Allow from 127.0.0.1
   AuthName "Nagios Access"
   AuthType Basic
   AuthUserFile /appl/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
   Require valid-user
</Directory>

Alias /nagios "/appl/nagios/share"

<Directory "/appl/nagios/share">
#  SSLRequireSSL
   Options None
   AllowOverride None
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
#  Order deny,allow
#  Deny from all
#  Allow from 127.0.0.1
   AuthName "Nagios Access"
   AuthType Basic
   AuthUserFile /appl/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
   Require valid-user
</Directory>

and that works, as the brits say, a treat.

Cheers,
-- jra
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