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dspahn
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 Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:40 pm Post subject: BackupPC/Admin/Apache2 web interface issue |
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I am setting up BackupPC to check it out for use in my office. The test machine is a 3.4 GHz Pentium-D with 2GB RAM... Obviously plenty of muscle for a simple backup server. I previously had the software working on another machine (which was commandeered by other office needs) but I never figured out how to get the web interface up. I am not yet proficient with Linux, and am just beginning to learn how to use Apache for managing various applications (I have a working mythweb at home, and a couple of other little basic interfaces). When I navigate to the BackupPC web interface from a seperate machine (I don't have X on my BackupPC server), I get the following:
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#!/usr/bin/perl #============================================================= -*-perl-*-w # # BackupPC_Admin: Apache/CGI interface for BackupPC. # # DESCRIPTION # BackupPC_Admin provides a flexible web interface for BackupPC. # It is a CGI script that runs under Apache. # # It requires that Apache pass in $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME} and # $ENV{REMOTE_USER}. The latter requires .ht_access style # authentication. Replace the code below if you are using some other # type of authentication, and have a different way of getting the # user name. # # Also, this script needs to run as the BackupPC user. To accomplish # this the script is typically installed as setuid to the BackupPC user, # or it can run under mod_perl with httpd running as the BackupPC user. # # AUTHOR # Craig Barratt # # COPYRIGHT # Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Craig Barratt # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA # #======================================================================== # # Version 2.1.2, released 5 Sep 2005. # # See http://backuppc.sourceforge.net. # #======================================================================== use strict; no utf8; use CGI; use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); use lib "/usr/lib"; use BackupPC::Lib; use BackupPC::CGI::Lib qw(:all); BackupPC::CGI::Lib::NewRequest; my %ActionDispatch = ( "summary" => "Summary", $Lang->{Start_Incr_Backup} => "StartStopBackup", $Lang->{Start_Full_Backup} => "StartStopBackup", $Lang->{Stop_Dequeue_Backup} => "StartStopBackup", $Lang->{Stop_Dequeue_Archive} => "StartStopBackup", "queue" => "Queue", "view" => "View", "LOGlist" => "LOGlist", "emailSummary" => "EmailSummary", "browse" => "Browse", "dirHistory" => "DirHistory", $Lang->{Restore} => "Restore", "RestoreFile" => "RestoreFile", "hostInfo" => "HostInfo", "generalInfo" => "GeneralInfo", "restoreInfo" => "RestoreInfo", "archiveInfo" => "ArchiveInfo", $Lang->{Start_Archive} => "Archive", "Archive" => "Archive", "Reload" => "ReloadServer", "startServer" => "StartServer", "Stop" => "StopServer", "adminOpts" => "AdminOptions", ); # # Set default actions, then call sub handler # $In{action} ||= "hostInfo" if ( defined($In{host}) ); $In{action} = "generalInfo" if ( !defined($ActionDispatch{$In{action}}) ); my $action = $ActionDispatch{$In{action}}; # # For some reason under mod_perl, the use lib above is unreliable, # and sometimes the module below cannot be found. Explicitly push # the directory onto INC if it is missing. This is an ugly hack; # need to figure out what's really going on... # my $installDir = '/usr/lib'; push(@INC, $installDir) if ( !grep($_ eq $installDir, @INC) ); # # Load the relevant action script and run it # require "BackupPC/CGI/$action.pm" if ( !defined($BackupPC::CGI::{"${action}::"}) ); $BackupPC::CGI::{"${action}::"}{action}();
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I have tried re-emerging mod_perl, perl, CGI, I have run
as well as | Code: | | emerge apache -Duva |
and I have double-checked the configuration files.
I am navigating to http://[IP Address]/BackupPC.
I used the BackupPC documentation and the BackupPC page on gentoo-wiki.
The CGI test script on the wiki gives the following output:
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#!/bin/sh
# disable filename globbing
set -f
echo Content-type: text/plain
echo
echo CGI/1.0 test script report:
echo
echo argc is $#. argv is "$*".
echo
echo SERVER_SOFTWARE = $SERVER_SOFTWARE
echo SERVER_NAME = $SERVER_NAME
echo GATEWAY_INTERFACE = $GATEWAY_INTERFACE
echo SERVER_PROTOCOL = $SERVER_PROTOCOL
echo SERVER_PORT = $SERVER_PORT
echo REQUEST_METHOD = $REQUEST_METHOD
echo HTTP_ACCEPT = "$HTTP_ACCEPT"
echo PATH_INFO = "$PATH_INFO"
echo PATH_TRANSLATED = "$PATH_TRANSLATED"
echo SCRIPT_NAME = "$SCRIPT_NAME"
echo QUERY_STRING = "$QUERY_STRING"
echo REMOTE_HOST = $REMOTE_HOST
echo REMOTE_ADDR = $REMOTE_ADDR
echo REMOTE_USER = $REMOTE_USER
echo AUTH_TYPE = $AUTH_TYPE
echo CONTENT_TYPE = $CONTENT_TYPE
echo CONTENT_LENGTH = $CONTENT_LENGTH
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I copied/pasted from the httpd-backuppc.conf file given in the wiki to place those sections in my httpd.conf.Apache starts with a nice green
[ ok ]
I think I have a configuration issue, but I'm not sure where to begin. Any ideas? From what I have here, it looks like CGI is not working. What have I missed?
Thanks!
edit: I should also include the contents of /var/log/apache2/error_log:
| Code: | [Tue Jan 16 12:46:57 2007] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec2)
[Tue Jan 16 12:46:57 2007] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Tue Jan 16 12:46:57 2007] [notice] Digest: done
[Tue Jan 16 12:46:57 2007] [notice] Apache configured -- resuming normal operations
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dspahn
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| Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 12:09 am Post subject: Authentication? |
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I know I must sound absolutely clueless, but I'm still trying to hammer this problem out.
I tried a different URL http://[IP Address]:8080 after messing with some configuration details.
I immediately get a popup dialog asking for authentication credentials. I created a user called 'admin' and gave it a password with htpasswd2. Apache is set to run as the backuppc user, and I have tried chmodding the web folders to that user. When I put the right credentials in, I get a 403 access denied error. I only have to put the correct credentials once to get this error- if I put in wrong credentials, it takes three times. So far, it could be one of the following:
backuppc user doesn't have proper permissions
bad authentication information
incorrect settings in httpd.conf
Here's what I think is the relevant section of httpd.conf:
| Code: | <Directory "/var/www/localhost/htdocs/backuppc">
AllowOverride AuthConfig
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI Includes
SetHandler cgi-script
Order allow,deny
# Allow from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.100
AuthName "admin"
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /etc/backuppc/htpasswd.users
Require valid-user
</Directory>
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What should I change to make it work?
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