Re: [BackupPC-users] Running Apache on a different machine ?

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

Nicolas writes:

> Ok sorry that's not a specialy backupPC thread but i'm curious.
> How can i run Apache in an other pc ? with nfs ? what setting do i need to 
> use ?
> There's options in the config.pl file but there's no documentation 

Let's call the two machines the apache and server machines.

On the apache machine you need to:

  - copy the BackupPC install directory (bin, lib, doc) over
    from the BackupPC server using the same path as on the
    server machine.

  - Note: BackupPC only runs on the server, not the apache
    machine.

  - NFS mount the BackupPC data directory on the apache
    machine, using the same path as on the BackupPC server.

  - copy the BackupPC_Admin script over to the apache CGI
    directory.

  - create the same backuppc user on the apache machine
    and make sure apache runs the CGI script as this user.

  - set $Conf{ServerPort} to some number above 1024.

  - set $Conf{ServerMesgSecret} to a hard-to-guess string.

  - restart (or reload) BackupPC on the server machine.

  - verify you can talk to BackupPC from the apache
    machine with a command like:

        su backuppc
        /path/to/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg status

Craig