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We are running Nagios 3.2.3 on Apache 2.4, and I know the DefaultType directive has been removed. While testing out Nagios on Apache 2.4 on RHEL 5.x, clicking on the Current->Hosts link causes Chrome, FF, and IE browsers to download a status.cgi file instead of displaying the Hosts page. Has anyone else run into this type of issue? I've tried some ForceType directives without success.

Is the cgi executable?

Yes, the Nagios sbin directory appears to be executable by everyone.

$ ls -la sbin
total 3312
drwxrwxr-x 2 group owner 4096 Oct 31 2012 ./
drwxrwxr-x 9 group owner 4096 Nov 1 2012 ../
-rwxrwxr-x 1 group owner 239312 Oct 31 2012 avail.cgi*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 group owner 244152 Oct 31 2012 cmd.cgi*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 group owner 210608 Oct 31 2012 config.cgi*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 group owner 255696 Oct 31 2012 extinfo.cgi*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 group owner 189096 Oct 31 2012 histogram.cgi*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 group owner 186288 Oct 31 2012 history.cgi*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 group owner 186032 Oct 31 2012 notifications.cgi*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 group owner 177904 Oct 31 2012 outages.cgi*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 group owner 182448 Oct 31 2012 showlog.cgi*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 group owner 244304 Oct 31 2012 status.cgi*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 group owner 185032 Oct 31 2012 statusmap.cgi*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 group owner 198352 Oct 31 2012 statuswml.cgi*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 group owner 182992 Oct 31 2012 statuswrl.cgi*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 group owner 206576 Oct 31 2012 summary.cgi*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 group owner 198384 Oct 31 2012 tac.cgi*
-rwxrwxr-x 1 group owner 193192 Oct 31 2012 trends.cgi*

However, Chrome's version of Firebug shows the following message when I click on the "host" link. It appears as if the browsers don't really know how to interpret this particular "host" link, but the other Nagios cgi links appear to function properly.

Resource interpreted as Document but transferred with MIME type application/octet-stream: "http://localhost:8881/nagios/cgi-bin/st ... hostdetail"

Should the results be the nagios instead of group/owner?

The group owner was just me hiding the real user and groups.

I finally used IE and FF to view the Nagios Host link, and they were both able to properly display the Web Page without attempting to download the status.cgi file. I also found out the trends.cgi and histogram.cgi also did not work, because they were referring to a missing libtff.so.2 Free Type library. After the sysadmin added the 32-bit version of the libtff.so.2 library, the next error was due to the trends.cgi and histogram.cgi scripts referring to an outdated directory name. After the sysadmin added the gd-devel library, I recompiled Nagios from source, restarted Apache, and cleared out Chrome's browser cache and clicked on the Nagios Host link again. Sure enough, Chrome was finally able to properly display the Nagios Hosts Web Page instead of trying to download it.

I suspect Chrome's browser cache and the some incorrect setting for Nagios was causing the Hosts link (status.cgi) to be downloaded.

Thanks for everyone's suggestions.

I forgot to mention that I did uninstall and re-install Chrome to make sure everything was back to their original defaults.

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