Sunday, 30 September 2012

How to redirect http to https in apache

 Just Add this line to end of your httpd.conf file

[root@station1 ~]# vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
1025 RewriteEngine On
1026 RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !443
1027 RewriteRule (.*) https://station1.ranjihat.com/ [R]
[root@station1 ~]# service httpd restart
Stopping httpd:                                            [  OK  ]
Starting httpd:                                             [  OK  ]

Thats it.. Open your webpage using http, you can observe the site will be automatically redirected to https.

Saturday, 29 September 2012

How to install nagios in rhel 6.3 / centos 6.3

Introduction
This guide is intended to provide you with simple instructions on how to install Nagios from source (code) on Fedora and have it monitoring your local machine inside of 20 minutes. No advanced installation options are discussed here - just the basics that will work for 95% of users who want to get started.
These instructions were written based on a standard RHEL 6.3 Linux distribution. 

What You'll End Up With
 
If you follow these instructions, here's what you'll end up with:
  • Nagios and the plugins will be installed underneath /usr/local/nagios
  • Nagios will be configured to monitor a few aspects of your local system (CPU load, disk usage, etc.)
  • The Nagios web interface will be accessible at http://localhost/nagios/
Prerequisites
 
During portions of the installation you'll need to have root access to your machine.
Make sure you've installed the following packages on your Fedora installation before continuing.
  • Apache
  • PHP
  • GCC compiler
  • GD development libraries
You can use yum to install these packages by running the following commands (as root):
yum install httpd php

yum install gcc glibc glibc-common

yum install gd gd-devel 
gd-devel is not available in default package so download from here. 
While installing it throws dependency errors. 
Just install those dependency through yum after that install this gd-devel rpm
ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/centos/6.3/os/x86_64/Packages/gd-devel-2.0.35-10.el6.x86_64.rpm
 
1) Create Account Information
Become the root user.
su -l

Create a new nagios user account and give it a password.
/usr/sbin/useradd -m nagios

passwd nagios
Create a new nagcmd group for allowing external commands to be submitted through the web interface. Add both the nagios user and the apache user to the group.
/usr/sbin/groupadd nagcmd

/usr/sbin/usermod -a -G nagcmd nagios

/usr/sbin/usermod -a -G nagcmd apache
 
2) Download Nagios and the Plugins
Create a directory for storing the downloads.
mkdir ~/downloads

cd ~/downloads
Download the source code tarballs of both Nagios and the Nagios plugins (visit http://www.nagios.org/download/ for links to the latest versions).


3) Compile and Install Nagios

Extract the Nagios source code tarball.
cd ~/downloads

tar xzf nagios-3.2.3.tar.gz

cd nagios-3.2.3
Run the Nagios configure script, passing the name of the group you created earlier like so:
./configure --with-command-group=nagcmd
Compile the Nagios source code.
make all
Install binaries, init script, sample config files and set permissions on the external command directory.
make install

make install-init

make install-config

make install-commandmode

Don't start Nagios yet - there's still more that needs to be done...

4) Customize Configuration

Sample configuration files have now been installed in the /usr/local/nagios/etc directory. These sample files should work fine for getting started with Nagios. You'll need to make just one change before you proceed...
Edit the /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg config file with your favorite editor and change the email address associated with the nagiosadmin contact definition to the address you'd like to use for receiving alerts.
 
vi /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg

5) Configure the Web Interface

Install the Nagios web config file in the Apache conf.d directory.
 
make install-webconf

Create a nagiosadmin account for logging into the Nagios web interface. Remember the password you assign to this account - you'll need it later.
htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin
Restart Apache to make the new settings take effect.
 
service httpd restart

Note: Consider implementing the ehanced CGI security measures described here 
to ensure that your web authentication credentials are not compromised. 
 
[root@station1 ~]# htdigest -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/.digest_pw "Nagios Access" \ 
nagiosadmin 
 
Adding password for nagiosadmin in realm Nagios Access.
New password: 
Re-type new password: 
 
[root@station1 ~]# vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/nagios.conf 
  9 ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin "/usr/local/nagios/sbin"
 10 
 11 <Directory "/usr/local/nagios/sbin">
 12    SSLRequireSSL
 13    Options ExecCGI
 14    AllowOverride None
 15    Order allow,deny
 16 #   Allow from all
 17 #  Order deny,allow
 18 #  Deny from all
 19    Allow from 127.0.0.1 10.65.62.30
 20    AuthName "Nagios Access"
 21    AuthType Digest
 22    AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/.digest_pw
 23    Require valid-user
 24 </Directory>
 25 
 26 Alias /nagios "/usr/local/nagios/share"
 27 
 28 <Directory "/usr/local/nagios/share">
 29    SSLRequireSSL
 30    Options None
 31    AllowOverride None
 32    Order allow,deny
 33 #   Allow from all
 34 #  Order deny,allow
 35 #  Deny from all
 36    Allow from 127.0.0.1 10.65.62.30
 37    AuthName "Nagios Access"
 38    AuthType Digest
 39    AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/.digest_pw
 40    Require valid-user
 41 </Directory>