Start nagios web interface on a different port

Question

I am trying to install nagios but I would like to start the web interface on a port other than 80. I cant seem to find much info on how to do that. Any help is appreciated. Thanks

Solution 1

I just worked on this, and figured it out. It's not ideal for some, but for me it works perfect. I just changed the default port apache2 looks at by :

Changing /etc/apache2/sites-available/default First line ( Default ) :

 <VirtualHost *:80>

Changed to :

 <VirtualHost *:8085>  # Change 8085 to whatever port you want

then linking default in sites-enabled ( not sure if this site is needed, but it works )

 cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/
 ln -s ../sites-available/default default

then cycle apache2 by :

 sudo service apache2 restart

Then test it out! This is what worked for me, hopefully it works for you.

Solution 2

If you have other web pages or apps running on the same server, the following information might be useful to separate Nagios as it's own Apache virtual host on a non-standard port (for example 43326 here).

Remove standard config and create Apache virtual host;

sudo cp /etc/apache2/conf.d/nagios.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/nagios3
sudo rm /etc/apache2/conf.d/nagios.conf
sudo vi /etc/apache2/sites-available/nagios3

To beginning of file add;

Listen 43326
<VirtualHost *:43326>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot /var/www/nagios3

To the end of the file add;

</VirtualHost>

Enable the new site;

sudo a2ensite nagios3

If you run a firewall (UFW), open the port;

sudo ufw allow 43326

Restart Apache

sudo service apache2 restart