Re: [BackupPC-users] Guide to set up Apache on OS X (to use mod_perl)

[Thomas v. E. <tho...@gm...>]

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Thomas von Eyben
<tho...@gm...> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Les Mikesell <les...@gm...> wrote:
>> Thomas von Eyben wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> Does anyone have a nice guide describing how to set up a Mac OS X's
>>> Apache  (Server or Client) to host BackupPC?
>>>
>>> I am now facing the problem:
>>>
>>> "Error: Wrong user: my userid is 70, instead of 502(backuppc)" when
>>> communicating with the CGI.
>>>
>>> As I understand it I need (for performance) a seperate instance of
>>> Apache running as user "backuppc" in order to be able to use the
>>> "mod_perl" method (that also gives me the highest performance), as
>>> opposed to (much slower) setuid method…
>>>
>>> I have searched the archives and google, but not found adequate help.
>>
>> First note that the performance difference only affect using the web
>> browser to view/restore backups, something you probably don't do that
>> often, not the performance of the backups operations which happen
>> separately.
>
> Ah - good point.
> I'll go down the no-mod_perl route first.
> My perl installation is from FINK (to not mess up the Apple provided
> perl!) but apparently the FINK'ed version does not support "setuid
> emulation". This is the next problem i need to solve (will now start
> some searching)
>
> BR TvE
>
Is anyone on the list actually running BackupPC on OS X?

:-) TvE