Nagios Issues

Virtualmin
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Hi,

I have been trying to set up Nagios on my virtualmin server, the install was pretty easy as I ran a yum install, but after that came the suexec issue and I have run into heavy weather. I am on Virtualmin 3.79 GPL.

I transferred all the html files from /usr/share/nagios/html to my main website folder and that changed things cosmetically, by allowing me to “see” the nagios web page. However clicking on any link gives this error:

Forbidden You don't have permission to access /nagios/cgi-bin//status.cgi on this server.

The logs indicate that

client denied by server configuration: /usr/lib/nagios/cgi-bin/status.cgi, referer: http://www.example.com/nagios/side.html

The CGI file permissions were changed to match those of the virtual host user, but to no avail. I tried to symlink the cgi files to the cgi folder of the virtual host but again it was a no go.

Googling didn’t help much either. Anybody running Nagios with Virtualmin or am I way off course here ?

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Howdy,

Yeah, files that are executed by suexec won’t work if the exist outside of /home.

Your options there are:

  • Move the Nagios files into /home

or

  • Change this particular Virtual Server to use something like mod_php, which wouldn’t use suexec. You can change that by going into Server Configuration -> Website Options, and setting “PHP script execution mode” to use mod_php.

    -Eric

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Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I will disable suexec for the Virtual Server and look into the matter.