Hi,

Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote on 2009-12-07 12:10:00 -0500 [[BackupPC-users] 
localhost translated as 127.0.0.1 vs. ::1 messing up permissions]:
> [post ignored due to senders request]

I think the fourth option is the easiest and most straightforward:

> 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
> [...]
> 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.

just use 'ssh -L 8145:localhost4:80 ...'

Regards,
Holger

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