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first access to Nagios
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 12:59 pm
by nagios-nube
I just installed Nagios Log Server and its giving me a 403 error. I used both wget and a browser and both get the same results.
Sorry for such a noob question.
Re: first access to Nagios
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 1:06 pm
by abrist
1) How did you install nagios? Source or package?
2) What version of nagios are you running?
3) What OS are you using?
4) Is apache running?
If so, restart it:
5) Did you install the webconf?
6) Is the apache vhost file where it is expected:
If so, what are its contents?
Re: first access to Nagios
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 1:20 pm
by nagios-nube
I installed from source, on CentOS.
I'm running whatever the latest is, looks like 1.3.
OS = CentOS
Apache is running, which is why I get 403 errors.
Like a noob, I hadn't checked the apache error log. It complains that apache doesn't have access to /var/www/html/index.php. Those files are owned/grouped as root:root, and apache can't access them.
What is the best way to resolve? I could chown the /var/www stuff to apache. Any better ideas?
Re: first access to Nagios
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 1:29 pm
by nagios-nube
I am not sure if the full install did webconf or not. The instructions didn't mention it and I didn't know to look for it.
The vhost file is where its supposed to be. Here are the contents:
Alias /nagioslogserver "/var/www/html/nagioslogserver/www/"
<Directory "/var/www/html/nagioslogserver/www/">
# SSLRequireSSL
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Re: first access to Nagios
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 1:53 pm
by jdalrymple
Sounds like your install was at least partially complete since your vhost showed up.
Did you for sure restart apache? The 403s on /var/www/html/index.php make it sound like the config didn't get read properly.
Besides that I'd look at your install.log (should be in the untarred nagioslogserver folder) and see if you can see anything that failed there.
Re: first access to Nagios
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 2:54 pm
by nagios-nube
I have just re-started httpd but got the same 403 error.
The error log file used to say can't access /var/www/html/index.php and I see that the Unix permissions don't allow that access. However, after these restarts, it is not giving that error any more - just says access denied in error_log and access_log.
Re: first access to Nagios
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2015 3:01 pm
by jdalrymple
access denied to what now? Still /var/www/html/index.php?
Generally speaking, for NLS to work you could delete /var/www/html/index.php entirely, permissions there don't mean anything to NLS. In addition, root.root is not an uncommon spec for hosted html so long that o permissions are r-x.
Re: first access to Nagios
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 2:36 pm
by nagios-nube
What I found, btw, is that I get a 403 error going to /nagioslogserver.
But, if I go to / it gives me an error in the httpd error_log saying it can't access the directory. So, I changed perms on the directory and now I can get to the initial node configuration screen.
The problem now is that the web server (Kibana) can't get to elastic search.
ES isn't started and starting it gets a memory error in the logs. I fixed that, and now get a null pointer exception error.
This problem is now a new post in the forum.
Thanks.
Re: first access to Nagios
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 3:51 pm
by tmcdonald
nagios-nube wrote:This problem is now a new post in the forum.
Thanks.
If you are going to open a new thread for that, please let us know so we can close this one.