Installing Nagios Core without "root" permission

Complete guide to install Nagios in Linux without "root" permission

1) Installing HTTPD

# All the installation will be done under /home/maximus/tools

wget http://www-eu.apache.org/dist//httpd/httpd-2.4.23.tar.gz
wget http://www-eu.apache.org/dist//apr/apr-util-1.5.4.tar.gz
wget http://www-eu.apache.org/dist//apr/apr-1.5.2.tar.gz

tar -xzvf httpd-2.4.23.tar.gz
tar -xzvf apr-1.5.2.tar.gz
tar -xzvf apr-util-1.5.4.tar.gz

cp -r apr-1.5.2 httpd-2.4.23/srclib/apr
cp -r apr-util-1.5.4 httpd-2.4.23/srclib/apr-util
cd httpd-2.4.23
./configure --prefix=/home/maximus/tools -with-included-apr
make
make install

2) Install PHP

wget http://php.net/get/php-7.0.9.tar.gz
tar -xzvf php-7.0.9.tar.gz
cd php-7.0.9
./configure --prefix=/home/maximus/tools --with-apxs2=/home/maximus/tools/bin/apxs --with-config-file-path=/home/maximus/tools/conf/
make
make install
cp php.ini-development /home/maximus/tools/conf/php.ini

# Add the following lines in /home/maximus/tools/conf/httpd.conf to enable PHP and CGI, 
# and to change the default HTTP port no

Listen 5555
LoadModule cgid_module modules/mod_cgid.so
LoadModule php7_module        modules/libphp7.so
<FilesMatch \.php$>
    SetHandler application/x-httpd-php
</FilesMatch>

3) Install GD

wget http://www.boutell.com/gd/http/gd-2.0.33.tar.gz
tar -xzvf gd-2.0.33.tar.gz
cd gd-2.0.33
./configure --prefix=/home/maximus/tools/
make
make install


4) Install Nagios

wget https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagioscore/releases/nagios-4.1.1.tar.gz
tar -xzvf nagios-4.1.1.tar.gz
cd nagios-4.1.1

# maximus is a non-previliged user. eng is the group which maximus belongs to. 
# Feel free to change it as per your needs
./configure --prefix=/home/maximus/tools/nagios --with-cgiurl=/nagios/cgi-bin --with-htmurl=/nagios/ --with-nagios-user=maximus --with-nagios-group=eng --with-command-group=eng --with-gd-lib=/home/maximus/tools/lib --with-gd-inc=/home/maximus/tools/include --with-httpd-conf=/home/maximus/tools/conf
make all
make install

# In the Makefile (in current directory) add the entry DESTDIR=/home/maximus/tools/ 
# and the execute the next command
make install-init
# Now remove the entry which we just added
make install-commandmode
make install-config
make install-webconf
cp -R contrib/eventhandlers/ /home/maximus/tools/nagios/libexec/

# Provide a password for the user nagiosadmin (you can chose your own username). 
# You will be using this login to the Nagios Core Web 
cd /home/maximus/tools/nagios/etc/
htpasswd -c htpasswd.users nagiosadmin

# Add the following line to /home/maximus/tools/conf/httpd.conf

Include conf/nagios.conf

5) Install the Nagios Core Plugins

wget http://www.nagios-plugins.org/download/nagios-plugins-2.1.1.tar.gz
tar -xzvf nagios-plugins-2.1.1.tar.gz
cd nagios-plugins-2.1.1
./configure --with-nagios-user=maximus --with-nagios-group=eng --prefix=/home/maximus/tools/nagios/
make
make install

To start the all the services
/home/maximus/tools/bin/apachectl start
/home/maximus/tools/etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios start

To stop the all the services
/home/maximus/tools/bin/apachectl stop
/home/maximus/tools/etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios stop

Web Address
http://localhost:5555/nagios/index.php

Hope this helps!!