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Sorry for double posting. Right after I tried the .htaccess thing above I realised I had a bad <Directory> set up in apache...instead of "/usr/lib64/nagios/cgi-bin" I had accidentally left it as "/usr/lib64/nagios/cgi" so all the auth settings I had set up weren't actually being ...

In order to use basic auth, you will need to create an .htaccess file as well as a basic auth users file. See the following link for details (about half way down the page): http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Nagios It was my understanding that doing this isn't required if I put the options straight in t...

lmiltchev wrote:What is the output of the following commands?

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cat /etc/httpd/conf.d/.htaccess
grep nag /etc/group

There is no .htaccess file in the conf.d folder of httpd.

As for the second command:
# grep nagios /etc/group
nagios499:apache
apache48:nagios

Nothing of the sort, sreinhardt . I'm simply trying to get the nagios web interface to work with the Apache basic authentication module, as is suggested in the nagios installation documents. I've documented some of the steps I've taken in the hope that someone has encountered a similar problem and c...

Hello everyone. I've just spent the better part of the last 2 days trying to get the web interface to register the nagiosadmin user when I log in. While the authentication works fine - I get asked for the user/password when I try to access the web interface, once I try to access any of the actual re...