Re: [BackupPC-users] BackukpPC_Admin connects to server when run directly from terminal window, but not from FireFox

[George A. <av...@ma...>]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 07:00:54 -0800 (PST), Reef Morse
<ree...@sb...> wrote:

> I've installed BackupPC on Fedora Core 5 and have encountered
> a problem that I can't solve.  I have user backuppc, group
> backuppc running Apache (httpd) and BackupPC (ps -Al shows both
> processes owned by backuppc).  When logged in as backuppc,
> if I run BackupPC_Admin from a terminal window, I generate
> the correct html showing that BackupPC_Admin connected to the
> BackupPC server, but, if I run BackupPC_Admin from Firefox
> (http://backuppc/cgi-bin/BackupPC/BackupPC_Admin), then BackupPC_Admin
> cannot connect to the BackupPC server.  I've been able to repeat this
> several times.
>
> I think I've got some permissions set incorrectly, but I can't figure
> out what.  Has anyone seen this problem before, and solved it?

Have you checked selinux issues?  There's been recent discussion on the
list about this for FC 6 that should give you some hints, though I think
some of the selinux booleans are new in FC6.

  George