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Hi there,

I've just upgraded to Hiawatha v10 and have run into a bit of a challenge with the new "Directory" config. In v9.15 I had the following:

VirtualHost {
...
        WebsiteRoot = /var/www
        Alias = /nagios3:/usr/share/nagios3/htdocs
        Alias = /nagios3/cgi-bin:/usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios3
...
}

Directory {
       Path = /usr/share/nagios3/htdocs
       PasswordFile = basic:/etc/nagios3/htpasswd.users
}

Directory {
       Path = /usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios3
       PasswordFile = basic:/etc/nagios3/htpasswd.users
}

However with v10 the "Path" stanza is now relative to the website root, so I'm not sure how to reference directories outside of the root (I tried adding the "Alias" path instead, eg

 Path = /nagios3 

, but that doesn't seem to work either).

What's the best way to get around this? I could symlink /usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios3 to /usr/share/nagios3/htdocs, then symlink that directory to /var/www/nagios3 but that doesn't seem like an elegant solution

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,
Andrew

Hi Andrew,

Your new configuration should now be

VirtualHost {
...
        WebsiteRoot = /var/www
        Alias = /nagios3:/usr/share/nagios3/htdocs
        Alias = /nagios3/cgi-bin:/usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios3
        UseDirectory = htdocs,cgibin
...
}

Directory {
       DirectoryID = htdocs
       Path = /nagios3
       PasswordFile = basic:/etc/nagios3/htpasswd.users
}

Directory {
       DirectoryID = cgibin
       Path = /nagios3/cgi-bin
       PasswordFile = basic:/etc/nagios3/htpasswd.users
}

I realize now that the path /nagios3/cgi-bin also matches /nagios3. If this one doesn't work, try swapping the order of the directory sections.

Thank you Hugo, it's working now with that configuration!

Cheers,
Andrew