Nagios 403 error

LMW · 05-11-2011, 02:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

What does this rewrite do anyway?
Could you comment it out and see if it works?
You can also take a look at this howto for more configuration details on debian

Already tried to comment that rewrite line - Error 6 (net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND): The file or directory could not be found.

LMW · 05-11-2011, 08:55 PM

OK, a little update. I've been reading through Internet and found out, that "403 error" usually occurs when nginx can't properly read password file (that is possible when password in such file is not properly encrypted).

And one more strange thing. When I've changed the path to password file

from:

Code:

"auth_basic_user_file /etc/nagios3/conf.d/htpasswd;"

to:

Code:

"auth_basic_user_file /etc/nagios3/htpasswd.users;"

"Login loop" started(of course I've created that new "htpasswd.users" file before that). I can't authorize at all! I've tried to generate password using Apache's htpasswd util, but with no success. Can anyone shed more light on that?

bathory · 05-12-2011, 12:49 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Already tried to comment that rewrite line - Error 6 (net::ERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND): The file or directory could not be found.

I guess this is because you use: location /nagios3/ and root /usr/share/nagios3/htdocs. With this root, the location has to be /, but you said you get a prompt to download a file when you do that!
I suggest you to make a backup of your config files and try to follow the tutorial of my previous post. According to that, put the nagios stuff inside a /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default (maybe because of the way debian configures vhosts) and leave nginx.conf with the basics.

BTW, to create a password using htpasswd, you can run:

Code:

htpasswd -d -c /etc/nagios3/conf.d/htpasswd username

If you want to change the password of that user omit the -c switch.
You can also try the perl command in the tutorial above.

LMW · 05-12-2011, 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bathory

Hi,

I guess this is because you use: location /nagios3/ and root /usr/share/nagios3/htdocs. With this root, the location has to be /, but you said you get a prompt to download a file when you do that!
I suggest you to make a backup of your config files and try to follow the tutorial of my previous post. According to that, put the nagios stuff inside a /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/default (maybe because of the way debian configures vhosts) and leave nginx.conf with the basics.

BTW, to create a password using htpasswd, you can run:

Code:

htpasswd -d -c /etc/nagios3/conf.d/htpasswd username

If you want to change the password of that user omit the -c switch.
You can also try the perl command in the tutorial above.

Thank you for your help. However, this problem was solved by moving "root" and "index" directives from "location" part to global. Now it's working as intended.