Les,
Turns out apache was fine. renaming /usr/local/etc/backuppc/hosts.pl to
hosts made everything work.
I'll accept my flat-forehead award later.
Thanks
Russ
On 01/11/13 11:29, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Russell Poyner <rpoyner AT engr.wisc DOT
> edu> wrote:
>> I'm trying to setup BackupPC on a FreeBSD 9.1 host, but having trouble
>> with the web interface.
>>
>> BackupPC 3.2.1 was installed from the FreeBSD port, and the web
>> interface is running under mod_perl, with apache running as the user
>> backuppc.
>>
>> From the log after restarting BackupPC:
>>
>> 2013-01-11 10:06:25 Reading hosts file
>>
>> /usr/local/etc/backuppc/hosts.pl has one entry:
>>
>> host dhcp user moreUsers # <--- do not edit this line
>> andromeda 0 myusername other,users,as,a,list
>>
>> ls -l /usr/local/etc/backuppc
>> total 264
>> -rw-r----- 1 backuppc backuppc 0 Jan 10 14:52 LOCK
>> -rw-r----- 1 backuppc backuppc 82948 Jan 11 09:56 config.pl
>> -rw-r----- 1 backuppc backuppc 82780 Jan 11 09:22 config.pl.old
>> -rw-r----- 1 backuppc backuppc 84996 Jan 3 12:25 config.pl.sample
>> -rw-r----- 1 backuppc backuppc 2243 Jan 11 10:28 hosts.pl
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 backuppc backuppc 2340 Jan 11 09:18 hosts.sample
>> drwxr-x--- 2 backuppc backuppc 512 Jan 11 10:05 pc
>>
>> I suspect this is some simple config problem, that I'm just missing.
>>
>> Is there a way to get verbose log/debug output from BackupPC?
>
> You need to configure apache to require authentication and log into
> the web interface as someone in $Conf{CgiAdminUsers} to see all the
> hosts. More details
> at:.http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#step_9__cgi_interface.
> Some packaged versions configure apache for you but I'm not familiar
> with how the freebsd port works.
>
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