Re: [BackupPC-users] .htaccess protect the CGI interface

On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 15:32 -0600, Janet Newlands wrote:
> Quick question:
> 
> I installed backuppc on my ubuntu server and am using that to back up
>  my other servers via rsync.  It works great!   
> 
> I can get to the CGI interface by typing http://[myservername]/backuppc
>  where I get a login prompt.   If I want to protect that page with an
>  .htaccess file, what is the actual path to the web executable?  The
>  docs say /usr/share/backuppc/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin but when I look at
>  /usr/share/backuppc/cgi-bin/  there is no BackupPC_Admin file in there
>  so I'm stumped.

You only need to protect /usr/share/backuppc/cgi-bin/. If you installed
the Ubuntu package, just edit /etc/apache2/conf.d/backuppc and add lines
like so:

<Directory /usr/share/backuppc/cgi-bin/>
        AuthGroupFile /etc/apache2/htgroup
        AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/htpasswd
        AuthType basic
        AuthName "BackupPC"
        require valid-user
</Directory>

Then create users:

htpasswd -m /etc/apache2/htpasswd username

Then reload Apache.

Regards,
Tyler

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