Nagios 403 Forbidden error in monitoring localhost

mtimbro · 06-12-2008, 10:40 AM

Hi all,

I've read all over to get this to work...I've already fixed it in the past but don't remember how I did it :-(...

Anyways, In the Service Detail pane of Nagios I get a 403 error when monitoring the local httpd server.

Here is the output of error_log for apache:

[Thu Jun 12 08:01:48 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Directory index forbidden by rule: /var/www/html/

These are the permissions on the directory:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 7 2007 html

Please advise.

M

mahalingam · 06-12-2008, 10:49 AM

hi mtimbro ,I imagine you have a linux OS. Perhaps your problem is due a SELinux security policy.

post here the out put of commands "sestate -v" an ls -ldZ of the html directory.

cheers

mtimbro · 06-12-2008, 11:43 AM

Hi,

Thanks for the prompt reply. SELinux is disabled on the machine.

It's a RH ES 4 i386 by the way :-). I'm think it has something to do with permissions...

unSpawn · 06-12-2008, 12:34 PM

Search LQ? Like http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ltdocs-627084/?

mtimbro · 06-12-2008, 01:42 PM

Obviously, I had read that post beforehand.

Found it on my own.

I needed to touch an empty index.html file in the /var/www/html directory.

Cheers,