n00b trying to set up on freebsd

[Kurt Buff]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 13:18, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 25, 2010, at 1:51 PM, Kurt Buff wrote:
<snip>
>> <Directory "/usr/local/www/nagios/cgi-bin">
>>  Options ExecCGI
>>  AllowOverride None
>>  Order allow,deny
>>  Allow from all
>>  AuthName "Nagios Access"
>>  AuthType Basic
>>  AuthUserFile /usr/local/etc/nagios/htpasswd.users
>>  Require valid-user
>> </Directory>
>
> If you're using anything like a normal install, this one will never match, and it's
> the only one that really matters. Do you really have the directory
> '/usr/local/www/nagios/cgi-bin' on your server and it contains the *.cgi files?

Yes, '/usr/local/www/nagios/cgi-bin' does exist and contain .cgi
files. I didn't put it there, so I expect that's where the FreeBSD
port installs it there.

> I expect not because of the nagiosadmin bit above. That implies that the CGI's are
> not being passed a username from your web server because there is no htaccess
> policy that applies to the directory that contains the CGI's. I expect that this should
> really be '/usr/local/www/nagios/sbin'. Adjust the following as necessary --
>
> <Directory "/usr/local/www/nagios/sbin">
>  Options ExecCGI
>  AllowOverride None
>  Order deny,allow
>  Deny from all
>  Allow from 192.168.24.0/24 # or 192.168.24.
>  AuthName "Nagios Access"
>  AuthType Basic
>  AuthUserFile /usr/local/etc/nagios/htpasswd.users
>  Require valid-user
>  Satisfy all
> </Directory>
>
> If this doesn't work, what errors do you see in error_log?
>
> --
> Marc

'Satisfy all' - that's new to me. Back in a second...

Nope - that didn't work. See also my last reply to Scott Lambert.

Kurt

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