Nagios Support Forum

During my initial installation, I am receiving the following error when trying to access the web interface (http://localhost/nagios/ using the nagiosadmin user) -

Access Forbidden - Error 403.
You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index document or the directory is read-protected.

Install is on SuSE 11.2.

How did you install Nagios, from source or from a SuSE package?

From the SuSE Pacakge download -

Do you have all the required Php5 packages? Both PHP5 itself and the PHP5 module for Apache?

I've installed the php modules and I am getting the following error when trying to restart the apache2 service (service apache2 restart) -

Invalid command 'ScriptAlias', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration

Here is the etc/apache2/httpd.conf file:

ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin "/usr/local/nagios/sbin"

<Directory "/usr/local/nagios/sbin">
# SSLRequireSSL
Options ExecCGI
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
# Allow from 127.0.0.1
AuthName "Nagios Access"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
Require valid-user
</Directory>

Alias /nagios "/usr/local/nagios/share"

<Directory "/usr/local/nagios/share">
# SSLRequireSSL
Options None
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
# Allow from 127.0.0.1
AuthName "Nagios Access"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
Require valid-user
</Directory>

Also, what php5 modules are required ? I have loaded:

Apache2-mod_php5
php5
php5-ctype
php5-dom
php5-hash
php5-iconv
php5-json
php5-suhosin
php5-tokenizer
php5-xmlreader
php5-xmlwriter

Are any other required? Thanks.

You shouldn't actually need any PHP modules for Nagios, its all still CGIs.

This is most definitely an Apache configuration issue, and I find it puzzling that its even an issue. That ScriptAlias is includes in mod_alias, can you search your package manager for mod_alias?

no luck finding any packages named mod-alias - I'm getting the following error when trying to access nagios via IE9-

Access forbidden!

You don't have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index document or the directory is read-protected.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 403

10.100.147.200
Wed Aug 8 08:14:58 2012
Apache/2.2.12 (Linux/SUSE)

This sure seems to be a permissions issue. Any ideas what folders/files maight be causing this issue...?

Thanks

also, when trying to restart apache2 (service apache2 restart) , I'm now getting the Invalid command ScriptAlias, perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not inlcuded in the server configuration ---

All help is greatly appreciated ...