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Hi,

Hope you can help, I am a Linux newbie and have manged to get Nagios Core working on Ubuntu 10.10. I would like to install VSHELL but am struggling. So far i have performed the commands below:

downloaded vshell

tar zxf vshell.tar.gz
cd vshell
mkdir /usr/local/vshell
cp -r * /usr/local/vshell

I am now struggling with the next step: To set up your apache configuration, modify the contents of the vshell.conf file to match the directory structure of your distribution and
your installation of Nagios. Use a text editor to modify this file as needed, then copy this file to the same directory as your nagios.conf
file.

I can modify the vshell.conf file but im not entriely sure Im doing it right, I have now edited and copied the file to the directory where nagios.conf is but when i navigate to localhost/vshell i get a 404 cannot find.

Please help, I think all I need to a better break down of the step above and what my vshell.conf file should look like? Hope you can help!


UPDATE: I am now getting a page saying: "Vshell Access Denied: Please log into Nagios Core.Access Denied" when navigating to http://localhost/vshell.

Here is my vshell.conf file:

#modify this file to fit your apache configuration

Alias /vshell "/usr/local/vshell"
#Alias /nagios /usr/local/nagios/share

#/etc/apache2
<Directory "/usr/local/nagios/share">
# SSLRequireSSL
# Options None
# AllowOverride None
# Order allow,deny
# Allow from all
# Allow from 127.0.0.1

Options None
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

#use the below lines for Nagios XI
# AuthName "Nagios Monitor XI"
# AuthType Basic
# AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagiosxi/etc/htpasswd.users


#Use the below lines for a typical Nagios Core installation
AuthName "Nagios Access"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
Require valid-user
</Directory>


Thanks!

Dont worry I've now fixed this by uncommenting a section of index.php. But i am still getting the access denied showing but it appears behind the V Shell logo??? Any ideas on how to remove this?

Be sure to comment out the check_auth() function as well. I'm guessing that you're getting the error message from that function. I'm probably going to change that part entirely for the next release, because it sounds like a lot of people are using something other than basic authentication.