running nagios on nginx -- I guess I need a cgi wrapper, any recommendations?

Cliff Wells cliff at develix.com
Sun Oct 3 22:09:28 MSD 2010


On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 00:59 -0400, Ilan Berkner 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 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


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