Nagios PHP requirement workaround

Nagios is server monitoring software used by many schools worldwide, we use it to monitor all of our services/sites.  Here is a conversation from IRC that discusses if Nagios requires PHP or not.

16:47] <mischko> Nagios now requires PHP?

[16:48] <keith4> “requires” is a strong word

[16:49] <LzrdKing> apparently, it depends on your distro, too

[16:49] <mischko> compiling from source version 3.2.1 no longer includes a few html files but php instead.

[16:49] <keith4> he must be talking about building from source

[16:50] <keith4> right. then… sure, it requires php

[16:50] <mischko> Is there a way to do 3.2.1 without php?

[16:51] <keith4> what distro?

[16:52] <mischko> compiled apache on rhel4

[16:52] <keith4> why not use the RPMs?

[16:52] <mischko> need newer version of apache than is available via rpm in our environment.

[16:55] <mischko> The only thing it seems to be needed for is the access to cgi_base_url config.

[16:56] <Valcor> mischko: pretty much

[16:57] <mischko> wow. I’m surprised they put in a PHP requirement for _that_ alone.

[16:59] <LzrdKing> keith4: didn’t you say debian doesn’t have the php requirement?

[17:06] <dnsmichi|home> the php requirement only is for the update checker, nothing else

[17:06] <dnsmichi|home> which is rather useless when using a package

[17:08] <mischko> dnsmichi, It’s also used in a few other places. I’m editing it all out.

[17:09] <dnsmichi|home> well ok then hf 🙂

[17:10] <mischko> that was easy. Let’s hope they don’t increase use of PHP in the future.

14:12] <dnsmichi> CapnDan: try a debian package – they remove php

[14:12] <dnsmichi> http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-nagios/pkg-nagios3.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/55_remove_php.dpatch;h=e8ff8255deed83f5287e17669782c06843792663;hb=HEAD

[14:12] <dnsmichi> 🙂

14:13] <CapnDan> dnsmichi: eh, I’m installing on Solaris.

[14:14] <dnsmichi> well then you might consider the patch on the git repo

[14:14] <CapnDan> I will take a look at it, thanks!