I am currently stuggling with a Nagios installation, and as a complete newbie to Linux I'm feeling somewhat overwhelmed.

I have (eventually) managed to install Nagios and dependancies. Installed Apache and chose default everything for ease sake. Apache is installed /usr/local/apache2.

Before I created the user login .htaccess file I could access my Nagios.localhost/nagios/. Now that the .htaccess file is in place i cannot. I have configured my htpasswd.users file with a user nagiosadmin / password. I get continually returned to the login box again.

Checking the htpasswd.users file ls -l showed root as owner and group, I found a post referring to this and chown'd and chgrp'd the file to someone/group other than root or nagios, also chmod'd to 644. But still I'm having a problem.

It's giving me a headache now.

Did you use the htpasswd command to put passwords and user names in the .htaccess file? If you did you should see the usernames in the file and encrypted passwords. Hope this helps!

Yes, used the htpasswd command to enter the users and passwords. They appear in the file...but still cannot login...

Make sure that the apache user or group is able to read the file.....I had this before and I think that was the fix