Nagios on Linux VPS

[andymc]

Hi,

A nice quiet weekend coming up, so I thought I would try and install Nagios on my Linux VPS.

Anyone here had any luck with it ? I downloaded the latest version and followed the centos 5 install guide - the web-install failed, so I did that manually (adding into httpd.conf), restarted apache and started nagios....

I followed the usual installation instructions make .... etc.
I get asked for my nagiosadmin password ok - so htaccess if working..

The Nagios verification from the comman dline is ok, no errors

Here is the problem -

http://myhost/nagois/ results in the 500 internal server - lots of google links but no solution that I found.
http://myhost/nagios/cgi/bin/status.cgi - no problems, displays status etc fine
http://myhost/nagios/index.html (when I touched index.html) - fine - blank page

So, basically, I cannot get into the standard admin interface, but can run the cgis directly.

SELinux is disabled

Any ideas ?


Cheers

Andy

[andymc]

Hi,

I got it workign by changing my php 5 handler from SuPHP to CGI

Anyone know what the security implications/problems of doing that are ?

Cheers

Andy

[andymc]

Hi,

I think I solved it

I reverted my PHP handler back to using SuPHP as I wasnt happy changing it to cgi.

Then I added

suPHP_Engine on
suPHP_UserGroup nagios nagios

after the Require valid-user in the nagios.conf generated by the nagios installation.

I added this in both the sbin and share entries.

I then remove 'group' write access from everything in /usr/local/nagios (I noticed an error abotu writeable group in the log files)

and everything works now

Hope this helps someone else

Cheers


Andy

[Rock]

Hi,

A nice quiet weekend coming up, so I thought I would try and install Nagios on my Linux VPS.

Anyone here had any luck with it ? I downloaded the latest version and followed the centos 5 install guide - the web-install failed, so I did that manually (adding into httpd.conf), restarted apache and started nagios....

I followed the usual installation instructions make .... etc.
I get asked for my nagiosadmin password ok - so htaccess if working..

The Nagios verification from the comman dline is ok, no errors

Here is the problem -

http://myhost/nagois/ results in the 500 internal server - lots of google links but no solution that I found.
http://myhost/nagios/cgi/bin/status.cgi - no problems, displays status etc fine
http://myhost/nagios/index.html (when I touched index.html) - fine - blank page

So, basically, I cannot get into the standard admin interface, but can run the cgis directly.

SELinux is disabled

Any ideas ?


Cheers

Andy

Hi,

I got it workign by changing my php 5 handler from SuPHP to CGI

Anyone know what the security implications/problems of doing that are ?

Cheers

Andy

Hi,

I think I solved it

I reverted my PHP handler back to using SuPHP as I wasnt happy changing it to cgi.

Then I added

suPHP_Engine on
suPHP_UserGroup nagios nagios

after the Require valid-user in the nagios.conf generated by the nagios installation.

I added this in both the sbin and share entries.

I then remove 'group' write access from everything in /usr/local/nagios (I noticed an error abotu writeable group in the log files)

and everything works now

Hope this helps someone else

Cheers


Andy

Glad to know that you got it working as the way you wanted Andy.. Good luck...