Nagios Support Forum

I have installed nagios3 on my Ubuntu 11.04 server using the command
apt-get install nagios3

My Server is running Fastcgi for PHP.

After install, in my browser when going to the URL http://IP_OF_Server/nagios3 and authentication with user nagiosadmin I am confronted with popup box to save or open the php file.

'which is a: application/x-httpd-php (1.4 KB)'

How can this be fixed?

I'm not an Ubuntu expert, but it sounds like Apache is not able to execute the PHP files and is instead trying to serve them. Here is a link to a thread on another forum with a similar issue:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=890814

Hope this helps, if that thread doesn't help you, please let me know and we can go from there.

I have tried your suggestions but to no avail.

On our server we are using mod_fcgid (Mod is loaded), not mod_php5 (not loaded). It is setup this way to run a separate PHP instances each with their own php.ini config. So I assume the issue is that mod_php5 is not loaded. My question is, Will Nagios3 run under the mod_fcgid? If So is there some documentation you can point me to?

Thanks for your help in advance.
Ake

I don't know whether it will work under that setup, but I do know that mod_php5 is the most well-tested setup for Nagios. CGI probably works too, but as far as I know, FCGI does not actually spawn separate PHP instances unless you are using a wrapper like fcgiwrap along with it.

Unfortunately, there's no official documentation for alternative setups like this and I couldn't find any articles or blog posts from community members doing this either.

Thanks for your help I will post my outcomes if i get it working under fastCGI.