Please ignore my previous host.
It's a Fedora configuration issue. Nothing to do with BackupPC.

Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote at about 12:10:00 -0500 on Monday, December 7, 2009:
 > My /etc/httpd/conf.d/BackupPC.conf file (which is the default in
 > Fedora 12) restricts access to localhost (which makes sense) as
 > follows:
 >    allow from 127.0.0.1
 > 
 > My /etc/hosts file has these (Fedora default) lines at the top:
 >    127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 
 > localhost4.localdomain4 mycomputer.mydomain
 >    ::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 
 > localhost6.localdomain6 mycomputer.mydomain
 > 
 > When I access the web interface from my Console, using either
 > http://127.0.0.1/BackupPC or http://localhost/BackupPC, everything
 > works (as expected) and the httpd access_log records the access as coming
 > from 127.0.0.1
 > 
 > However when I access the web interface via an ssh tunnel using 
 > -L 8145:localhost:80 and http://127.0.0.1:8145/BackupPC, somehow the
 > address gets translated to ::1 (as shown by the httpd error_log
 > records) which causes access to be denied.
 > 
 > Now I know I can fix this either by removing the ::1 line from the
 > hosts file or by adding ::1 to the /etc/httpd/conf.d/BackupPC.conf
 > file.
 > 
 > But I want to understand first why in an ssh tunnel the 127.0.0.1:8145
 > address would be translated to ::1 rather than to 127.0.0.1
 > 
 > 
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