Lighttpd

OS: Debian 5
Lighttpd: 1.4.19
Nagios: 3.0.6

Hi there,

I am in the middle of setting up Nagios3 on one of my servers which runs Lighttpd. I have setup Nagios with Apache without any problems in the past but for some reason I am having big trouble with the CGI authentication with lighttpd. Whats happening is this, when you goto http://domain.com/nagios, the username and password prompt pops up as expected, you type in your details and then get presented to the home page of nagios. If you click on any links on the side, it shows that you "Logged in as ?" this means you have CGI accessing errors like "It appears as though you do not have permission to view information for any of the services you requested...". This should be displaying the username you used when you first visited the site.

I think the problem is that the ENV for username is not being saved when you type it in the user/password prompt. Its ignoring it or not saving it to its veriable. I have followed http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/NagiosRecipe which has not helped.

I am enclosing my configs to see if you can spot whats wrong.

alias.url =     (
                "/cgi-bin" => "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios3",
                "/nagios" => "/usr/share/nagios3/htdocs" 
                )

$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/cgi-bin" {
        cgi.assign = ( "" => "" )
}

$HTTP["url"] =~ "nagios" {
        auth.backend = "htpasswd" 
        auth.backend.htpasswd.userfile = "/etc/nagios3/htpasswd.users" 
        auth.require = ( "" => (
                "method" => "basic",
                "realm" => "nagios",
                "require" => "user=simon" 
                )
        )
        setenv.add-environment = ( "REMOTE_USER" => "user" )
}

I have also tried the following:

alias.url =     (
                "/cgi-bin" => "/usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios3",
                "/nagios" => "/usr/share/nagios3/htdocs" 
                )

$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/cgi-bin" {
        cgi.assign = ( "" => "" )
}

$HTTP["url"] =~ "nagios" {
        auth.backend = "htpasswd" 
        auth.backend.htpasswd.userfile = "/etc/nagios3/htpasswd.users" 
        auth.require = ( "" => (
                "method" => "basic",
                "realm" => "nagios",
                "require" => "valid-user" 
                )
        )
        setenv.add-environment = ( "REMOTE_USER" => "valid-user" )
}

Both versions I have tried do not work.

My lighttpd server.modles config is as follows:

server.modules              = (
            "mod_setenv",
            "mod_auth",
            "mod_access",
            "mod_alias",
            "mod_accesslog",
            "mod_compress",
            "mod_fastcgi",
#           "mod_rewrite",
#           "mod_redirect",
            "mod_evhost",
            "mod_cgi",
#           "mod_usertrack",
#           "mod_rrdtool",
#           "mod_webdav",
#           "mod_expire",
#           "mod_flv_streaming",
#           "mod_evasive" 
)

Can anyone spot what I am doing wrong? or can tell me how I can see if its not parsing the user into server veriable?

Kind Regards,

Simon