howto: Let nginx serve the Nagios web-interface
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For serving the Nagios web-interface it's not necessary to run an Apache webserver. It also works quite well with others like lighttpd or nginx. Here's how to configure nginx with basic auth so that Nagios knows who you are.
Prerequisites
Almost any package management system like apt pulls the Apache webserver as a dependency. I therefore strongly suggest you to compile and install Nagios manually since then you've got way more options to play with. Stick to the official documentation if you consider to do so. The following config files are all based on Nagios' default configure options.
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apache webserver,
fcgiwrap,
icinga,
lighttpd,
linux,
nagios,
network monitoring,
nginx,
open source,
spawn_fcgi,
sysadmin