> RTFM !
>
> this is totally an unqualified complain. it is absolutely no problem to
> install nagios on any imaginable url. and its very well documented in
> the supplied docs.
I of course spent several hours reading the manual and it didn't work
for me at first or I wouldn't have posted. Turns out the problem was
the cgi.cfg which was sent to me by my colleague who installed nagios
at a different url. Consequently only certain things like stylesheets
and images which depend on htmurl were incorrectly referenced.
I incorrectly assumed since the url was specified to ./configure it
was just hard compiled into the cgi executables and that either these
or relative urls would be used. After reading the source code and a
thousand or so lines of config files, I found that it is compiled in
as a default but is overridden by a runtime config file.
Hence this is no software defect but just an incorrect assumption on
my part that I could simply copy configuration files between different
installations which are custom compiled for the local server and fire
up. Not necessarily true. Thank goodness for open source or I may
never have figured it out and left it default.
By the way,
./configure --help reads:
--with-cgiurl= sets URL for cgi programs (do not use a trailing slash)
--with-htmurl= sets URL for public html
I'd recommend something more like:
--with-cgiurl= sets URL for cgi programs (do not use a trailing slash)
--with-htmurl= sets URL for public html
Since those commands in fact do not take directories or even fully
qualified url's as arguments.
Thanks for your insight, I can imagine your frustration
- Mike
> I couldn't find a tool for tracking nagios defects, so I am posting
> this here. I tried configuring nagios to run without living in
> http:///nagios using the configure command line options.
> This failed as some of the cgi's must have hardcoded URL's that still
> refer to things in http:///nagios/... so I was forced to set
> it up as the default to get css's and images to work.
>
> - Mike
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