# Running nagios on nginx -- I guess I need a cgi wrapper, any recommendations? **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [October 3, 2010, 7:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-nagios-on-nginx-i-guess-i-need-a-cgi-wrapper-any-recommendations/195931 "2010-10-03T07:00:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![iberci](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/a3d4f5/32.png) [@iberci](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/iberci)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 7:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-nagios-on-nginx-i-guess-i-need-a-cgi-wrapper-any-recommendations/195931/1 "2010-10-03T07:00:32Z")
Hi All, I didn’t realize that I needed a CGI wrapper for the nagios CGI scripts, oops… found this article: [http://www.matejunkie.com/howto-let-nginx-serve-the-nagios-web-interface/](http://www.matejunkie.com/howto-let-nginx-serve-the-nagios-web-interface/) Before I go this route, any better / easier suggestions / recommendations? ---
**Author:** ![iberci](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/a3d4f5/32.png) [@iberci](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/iberci)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 1:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-nagios-on-nginx-i-guess-i-need-a-cgi-wrapper-any-recommendations/195931/2 "2010-10-03T13:07:28Z")
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 00:59:34 -0400, Ilan B. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Hi All, > > I didn’t realize that I needed a CGI wrapper for the nagios CGI scripts, oops… > > found this article: > > [http://www.matejunkie.com/howto-let-nginx-serve-the-nagios-web-interface/](http://www.matejunkie.com/howto-let-nginx-serve-the-nagios-web-interface/) [1] > > Before I go this route, any better / easier suggestions / recommendations? !DSPAM:4ca80de8110851118274457! Hi, I did it with fcgiwrap a while ago. Sorry, the setup is in french, but it might help: [http://wiki.linuxwall.info/doku.php/fr:ressources:dossiers:supervision:nagios3?s[]=nagios#configurer\_nginx](http://wiki.linuxwall.info/doku.php/fr:ressources:dossiers:supervision:nagios3?s%5B%5D=nagios#configurer_nginx) Julien ---
**Author:** ![iberci](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/a3d4f5/32.png) [@iberci](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/iberci)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-nagios-on-nginx-i-guess-i-need-a-cgi-wrapper-any-recommendations/195931/3 "2010-10-03T15:45:29Z")
I got it working, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![iberci](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/a3d4f5/32.png) [@iberci](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/iberci)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 5:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-nagios-on-nginx-i-guess-i-need-a-cgi-wrapper-any-recommendations/195931/4 "2010-10-03T17:34:56Z")
I’m happy to say that fcgiwrap has been packaged for Debian sid/squeeze and will be in Ubuntu 10.10 as well. ## iberkner Wrote: > for the nagios CGI scripts, > suggestions / > dossiers:supervision:nagios3?s=nagios#configurer > \_nginx > > > Julien Posted at Nginx Forum: [http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,136478,136567#msg-136567](http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,136478,136567#msg-136567) ---
**Author:** ![iberci](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/a3d4f5/32.png) [@iberci](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/iberci)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2010, 8:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-nagios-on-nginx-i-guess-i-need-a-cgi-wrapper-any-recommendations/195931/5 "2010-10-03T20:10:38Z")
On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 00:59 -0400, Ilan B. wrote: > Hi All, > > I didn’t realize that I needed a CGI wrapper for the nagios CGI > scripts, oops… When I am forced to run CGI, I usually choose one of the tiny HTTP servers such as thttpd (see [GitHub - nginxinc/nginx-wiki: ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki section of https://www.nginx.com · GitHub](http://wiki.nginx.org/ThttpdCGI)) and proxy to it from Nginx. This keeps the memory footprint small (no Apache required) and still lets me used the more advanced features of Nginx for non-CGI tasks. Cliff – ---
**Author:** ![iberci](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/a3d4f5/32.png) [@iberci](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/iberci)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2010, 10:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/running-nagios-on-nginx-i-guess-i-need-a-cgi-wrapper-any-recommendations/195931/6 "2010-10-04T10:40:11Z")
On nie, paź 03, 2010 at 11:09:28 -0700, Cliff W. wrote: > When I am forced to run CGI, I usually choose one of the tiny HTTP > servers such as thttpd (see [GitHub - nginxinc/nginx-wiki: ARCHIVED -- Source for the now archived NGINX Wiki section of https://www.nginx.com · GitHub](http://wiki.nginx.org/ThttpdCGI)) and proxy > to it from Nginx. This keeps the memory footprint small (no Apache > required) and still lets me used the more advanced features of Nginx for > non-CGI tasks. I’m not exactly sure you can go much lighter than fcgiwrap (especially with several instances running, the per-process overhead is minimal – 84 KB last time I checked on i386). Best regards, Grzegorz N.