Matt, thanks, this is going above and beyond........... , I really appreciate it. I ran your cgi and this is what I get. <table border=4> <tr valign=top> <td>AUTH_TYPE <td>Basic <tr valign=top> <td>DOCUMENT_ROOT <td>/var/www/html/ <tr valign=top> <td>GATEWAY_INTERFACE <td>CGI/1.1 <tr valign=top> <td>HTTP_ACCEPT <td>image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, */* <tr valign=top> <td>HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING <td>gzip, deflate <tr valign=top> <td>HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE <td>en-us <tr valign=top> <td>HTTP_CONNECTION <td>Keep-Alive <tr valign=top> <td>HTTP_COOKIE <td>CFID=4524; CFTOKEN=34654484 <tr valign=top> <td>HTTP_HOST <td>ifw9bct-dude.den.fws.gov <tr valign=top> <td>HTTP_USER_AGENT <td>Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) <tr valign=top> <td>PATH <td>/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin <tr valign=top> <td>QUERY_STRING <td> <tr valign=top> <td>REMOTE_ADDR <td>10.xx.xx.xx <tr valign=top> <td>REMOTE_PORT <td>1208 <tr valign=top> <td>REMOTE_USER <td>rblair <tr valign=top> <td>REQUEST_METHOD <td>GET <tr valign=top> <td>REQUEST_URI <td>/nagios/cgi-bin/env.cgi <tr valign=top> <td>SCRIPT_FILENAME <td>/usr/local/nagios/lib/cgi/env.cgi <tr valign=top> <td>SCRIPT_NAME <td>/nagios/cgi-bin/env.cgi <tr valign=top> <td>SERVER_ADDR <td>164.xx.xx.xx <tr valign=top> <td>SERVER_ADMIN <td>xx@localhost <tr valign=top> <td>SERVER_NAME <td>ifw9bct-dude.den.fws.gov <tr valign=top> <td>SERVER_PORT <td>80 <tr valign=top> <td>SERVER_PROTOCOL <td>HTTP/1.1 <tr valign=top> <td>SERVER_SIGNATURE <td>Apache/1.3.27 Server at ifw9bct-dude.den.fws.gov Port 80 <tr valign=top> <td>SERVER_SOFTWARE <td>Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) </table> 0 Rick Blair Network Engineer USFW 303.202.2687 <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <td>Matt Pounsett <matt.pounsett@cira.ca> Sent by: mattp@office-mail.cira.ca 09/12/2003 10:44 AM <td> To: Rick_Blair@fws.gov cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] CGI permissions make me mad also! HELP!!!!</table> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 Rick_Blair@fws.gov wrote: > When I try to access the CGI from the link on the nagios web page I am > getting the error: The thing that bit me here was that I had failed to put my .htaccess file in all the right places. What user does the "Tactical Monitoring Overview" table in the top left of the Tactical Overview page report you as being logged in with? Not sure if this is your problem or not.. but you might want to confirm that your .htaccess file is in both the CGI directory and the root of the HTML directory, and that it is readable by your web server user. While trying to solve my own problem, I threw together a quick little CGI to check that Apache was passing auth information properly... drop a copy of ftp://ftp.conundrum.com/pub/software/env.cgi in your Nagios cgi-bin directory and then try to run it. Make sure Apache is setting HTTP_USER correctly. Hope this helps somehow.. Matt -- Matt Pounsett CIRA - Canadian Internet Registration Authority Technical Support Programmer 350 Sparks Street, Suite 1110 matt.pounsett@cira.ca Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 613.237.5335 ext. 231 http://www.cira.ca