BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC on Nginx - help, it is killing me!

2015-01-30 14:40:18
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC on Nginx - help, it is killing me!
From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:30:21 -0600
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 9:07 AM, lockheed
<backuppc-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:
> I have been trying to set it up since two months, but every time I solve one 
> problem, I get into another one.
>
> I am running Arch linux with latest Nginx.
>
> When I login in into BPC web interface, I get
>
> Error&#58; Unable to read config.pl or language strings!!
>
> Note&#58; $ENV&#123;REMOTE_USER&#125; is not set, which could mean there is 
> an installation problem. BackupPC_Admin expects Apache to authenticate the 
> user and pass their user name into this script as the REMOTE_USER environment 
> variable. See the documentation.
> The only solutions I found online were related to Apache, so useless to me.
>
> Can anyone help me here?

Won't apache run on Arch Linux?   Otherwise you'll have to figure out
how to make nginx do basic authentication and export it's $remote_user
variable - and make it run as a user with permission to access the
backuppc files.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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