The Nagios web interface
Chapter 3, Configuring Nagios, described how to set up the Nagios web interface. In this section, we will briefly describe its structure and how to use it.
The Nagios web interface is a part of the main Nagios sources and binary distributions. Therefore, if you installed Nagios, you also have the web interface files. The only thing that you need is a web server with CGI and PHP support, which in our case will be Apache 2 (refer to http://httpd.apache.org/ for more details).
The web interface uses Common Gateway Interface (CGI, a standard to generate dynamic websites; refer to http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/cgi.html for more details) to work as it is the most commonly offered way to run applications. It also allows a flexible set up in terms of security as CGI binaries can be run as a different user than the one web server is running as.
The web interface also uses additional files such as many static HTML pages, CSS style sheets, and images. Starting...
