Install Nagios on Fedora 8

[MheAd]

I'm new to Nagios and Apache as well.
I'm trying to install it (Nagios) and play with it for a while.
A big problem is that the official documentation (as even other guides I find) are based upon compile-it-on-your-own-version, which have totally different dir-locations compared to the rpm/yum version of Nagios that I installed. That makes all of these guides very hard to follow. Anyway, I came across Max Hetrick's howto-guide @ Centos Wiki and it seems to make a lot of sense. The paths described there correspond mostly well to Fedora..

However, I'm getting an error after adding the cgi-configuration lines in httpd.conf.

Starting httpd: [Mon Sep 01 00:37:19 2008] [warn] The ScriptAlias directive in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf at line 993 will probably never match because it overlaps an earlier Alias.

The line 993 corresponds to the first line in the code bellow. And from my humble knowledge, this error message is supposed to mean that I have double aliases in the config file, which is not true. No overlaps whatsoever. Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!

ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin "/usr/lib/nagios/cgi-bin"

<Directory "/usr/lib/nagios/cgi-bin">
    Options ExecCGI
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    AuthName "Nagios Access"
    AuthType Basic
    AuthUserFile /etc/nagios/passwd
    Require valid-user
</Directory>

Alias /nagios "/usr/share/nagios"

<Directory "/usr/share/nagios">
    Options None
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    AuthName "Nagios Access"
    AuthType Basic
    AuthUserFile /etc/nagios/passwd
    Require valid-user
</Directory>

[scottro]

The nagios docs make it all seem much harder than it should be.

I would start with Max Hetrick's howto on the CentOS wiki. Much of that also worked for F8, if I remember correctly.

Max wrote a REALLY excellent, easy to understand how to, much much better, IMHO, than the official docs.

[MheAd]

But if you read more carefully - you'll see that it was actually that very same doc that I was using myself to set the things up - yet came to this problem I'm describing.

Thanx in advance.

[scottro]

Oh for goodness' sake, you're right. Sigh. Hrrm, I used it to install on F8 or F9 without an issue.
Please accept my apologies, I read too quickly.

I will look at what I have on Tuesday--I might have even gotten that error and commented something out somewhere, but I don't remember now.

(In the US, tomorrow's a holiday, and I REALLY don't want to log in over the weekend.)

[wintersm]

you shouldnt need to add anything to httpd.conf look in /etc/httpd/conf.d and you will find nagios.conf which the rpm adds..

[TheMadIndian]

The reason for the error message is because its not necessary to add the Aliases in httpd.conf because the rpm install creates its own conf file in /etc/httpd/conf.d/nagios.conf where the aliases are already defined

and I know what you mean with source vs rpm, I support 3 nagios systems one is from source and the other two are from rpm, eventually you get used to the paths

fwiw - if you see /usr/ocal/nagios/etc (source) it will be /etc/nagios (rpm) /usr/local/nagios/libexec (source) /usr/lib/nagios (rpm)

[MheAd]

Okay guys, thanks for the tips. I'll look into this and report how I'm doing. I'll probably get stuck someplace else in the progress. ))

[MheAd]

Originally Posted by scottro

Oh for goodness' sake, you're right. Sigh. Hrrm, I used it to install on F8 or F9 without an issue.
Please accept my apologies, I read too quickly.

Hey man, that's cool, no sweat. I'm the one who's supposed to be grateful for any reply and here you are making apologies!