Accessing Nagios for the first time

[Stuart Browne]

> From: Tim Tompson [mailto:tt.rexplay at gmail.com] 
> 
> Ok, really dumb question.
> 
> I have successfully configured and installed Nagios, according to:
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart-fedora.html on my
> webserver. No problems at all throughout the process.
> 
> My problem comes at step 9.
> 9) Login to the Web Interface
> 
> You should now be able to access the Nagios web interface at the URL
> below. You'll be prompted for the username (nagiosadmin) and password
> you specified earlier.
> 
> http://localhost/nagios/
> 
> 
> I installed everything on my server via SSH command line, but now I
> need to access localhost, but can't since all I use to connect to my
> server is command line driven (ssh). I tried accessing my
> serveripaddress/nagios, and no luck - but wouldn't expect that to work
> either.
> 
> Anyone know what I should do at this point? Thanks.

Look at the apache config (probably /etc/httpd/conf.d/nagios.conf).

This will have a 'limit' so that it can only be accessed by '127.0.0.1'.  Open that up (i.e. remove the line or add your local subnet).  Bounce your httpd.

Stuart

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