n00b trying to set up on freebsd

[Scott Lambert]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 11:03:49AM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote:
> I'm trying to install nagios on freebsd, and can't get to the point of
> getting lynx on the host to talk to http://192.168.8.20/nagios - I get
> a 403 "You don't have permission to access /nagios/ on this server."
> 
> I'm beating my brains out on this one, and don't know what I'm doing
> wrong. I'm sure it's something really simple I'm overlooking, because
> just browsing http://192.168.8.20 gets a response. Unfortunately there
> isn't a quick install guide for freebsd, so I'm having to do some
> translation of the docs.
> 
> Any help much appreciated.

Rather than guessing, you might want to take a look at what Apache
thinks is wrong:

Access the page and then:

sudo tail /var/log/httpd-error.log

It should pretty much tell you what is wrong.

Is lynx asking you for a username and password?

Is there some reason you didn't follow exactly the instructions
suggested by the pkg-message for the nagios port with regard to the
Apache configuration?  I don't see anything particularly wrong with your
config, but it may be needlessly over complex.  

I believe in getting things working according how the port maintainer
suggests. The port maintainers tend to do a good job of handing you a
good basic configuration which works.

Once that works, I make the changes needed for my site one step at a
time, testing each change individually.

-- 
Scott Lambert                    KC5MLE                       Unix SysAdmin
lambert at lambertfam.org


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