On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:21:16 -0400, "John  BORIS" <jboris AT adphila DOT org>
wrote:
> I am trying to get BackupPC installed on Red Hat Enterprise. I
> downloaded the latest file from sourceforge
> 
> BackupPC-3.2.0beta1.tar.gz
> 
> Following the directions in the documents I ran
> 
> perl configure.pl
> 
> I used all of the default settings. When I was finished I then copied
> the linux-backuppc file from the init.d directory to /etc/init.d.
> 
> I copied the BackupPC.conf file from the httpd directory of the src to
> /etc/httpd/conf.d.
> 
> I edited the BackupPC.conf file (in /etc/httpd/conf.d) so the directory
> portion points to /usr/local/BackupPC
> 
> When I try httpd://localhost/BackupPC
> 
> I get challenged for a username and password and this will read the
> .htaccess file I created but then I get nothing. I edited the hosts file
> in /etc/BackupPC for the two hosts I am starting with also.
> 
> This is a umpteenth time I have tried this install. I have asked
> previous users I had contact with and they tell me that the BackupPC
> should be getting installed in /usr/share/BackupPC and that the programs
> live at an sbin directory. This sbin directory never gets created?
> 
> 
> Is there another tar ball I need to start with for Red Hat, or some src
> files I should be using.
> 
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Is the backuppc process running?

Are you using suexec? If this is a dedicated backuppc server (like mine)
just change the apache user to 'backuppc'. I'm running on RHEL5.4 using the
standard tarball with no issues, but with apache running as backuppc.

-Josh

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