The .htaccess is only required if you don’t
have root access to the server & thus can’t add it to the main
httpd.conf. If you have root access, its almost always better to add it there.
In that case you would have no .htaccess file, it would all be in the server
config.
M
From:
Deborah Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 01 August 2006 15:32
To: 'Justin Craig'
Cc: Hari Sekhon; Martin J. Green;
[email protected]
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users]
Externals Commands
ok - somewhere in the nagios docs are the
details with regard to setting up .htaccess but
I think there is a utility in the nagios
install directory under bin called htpasswd or htpasswd2 and you run this util
to generate a htpasswd.users file where
all the users that have web interface
access are stored including nagiosadmin. I store mine in the etc install
directory.
Then in my .htaccess file i have the
following
AuthName "Nagios Access"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
require valid-user
This file resides in the sbin directory
(which is also cgi-bin). Note though - change the AuthUserFile path to wherever
you are storing the htpasswd.users file.
When i was getting the 'return from whence
you came error', this was exactly my problem - i hadn't set up authorisation
correctly and the above was how i fixed it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Craig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 01 August 2006 15:07
To: Deborah Martin
Cc: Hari Sekhon; Martin J. Green;
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users]
Externals Commands
so obviously I RTFM or I wouldn't have got this far. One part
that I did have questions of was the .htaccess creation, as the documentation I
read only provided information for setting up users via htpasswd -c and
changing your authorization functionality in the CGI's to 1.
So I did a find / -name *.htaccess* and that file doesn't exist.
Sounds like I need one?
Sorry, there isn't anything in my /var/www/cgi-bin directory
Is there something missed here?
On 8/1/06, Deborah
Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
can you forward the contents of the
.htaccess file that resides in the cgi-bin directory ? and a listing of
the rest of the directory including the permissions
-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Craig [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 01 August 2006 14:46
To: Deborah Martin
Cc: Hari Sekhon; Martin J. Green; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users]
Externals Commands
i'm logged in as nagiosadmin and i have that username in all my
cgi's. I have the sameissue, can't schedule downtime or issue external
commands with the same error. I'm running nagios 2.4
On 8/1/06, Deborah
Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
look at your /usr/local/nagios/sbin
directory and check a) file permissions are correct and also whether your
.htaccess authrization file is present.
This error is generally caused by not
correctly using .htaccess and also not configuring apache properly - check your
httpd.conf is correctly configured
-----Original Message-----
From: Hari Sekhon [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 01 August 2006 14:14
To: Martin J. Green
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users]
Externals Commands
Martin J. Green wrote:
I can't get external commands to work either (appears it
can't write to the file for some reason), but its so low on my list of
priorities I haven't gotten to it yet.
I am having real difficulty getting
external commands to work and don't full understand what's going wrong, despite
having RTFMing several times.
As an example, I log in to the web interface as nagiosadmin via basic apache
auth successfully as usual. I go to "comments" in the left hand pane
and enter one for a host but when I click submit, I get the error:
"Sorry, but you are not authorized to commit the specified
command.
Read the section of the documentation that
deals with authentication and authorization in the CGIs for more information.
Return from whence you came"
As far as I can tell, I have all the perms set right according to the docs:
cgi.cfg
use_authentication=1
authorized_for_system_information=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_configuration_information=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_system_commands=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_services=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_hosts=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_service_commands=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_host_commands=nagiosadmin
nagios.cfg
command_file=/var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd
check_external_commands=1
# NOTE: Setting this value to -1 causes Nagios to check the external
# command file as often as possible.
command_check_interval=-1
ll /var/nagios/ | grep rw/
drwxrws--- 2 nagios apache 4096 Aug 1 13:28 rw/
ll /var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd
prw-rw---- 1 nagios apache 0 Aug 1 13:28 /var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd|
The apache process is run by the apache user, a member of the apache group, so
has full perms to the directory and the pipe file nagios.cmd. Nagios is run by
nagios who is also a member of the apache group.
This all looks as it should be according to the docs as far as I can see.
What am I missing?
Hari
I think quite a lot of people have trouble with this but a lot give up or are
satisfied that the main bit is working and don't bother with this...
does anybody have this working and if so could you post your configs so I can
see anything you have different to me?
are external commands generally broken or is there something missing in the
docs/our configs/our brains?
I'm using Version 1.4.1
Hari
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