Re: [BackupPC-users] cgi script display problems

[Michael M. <mi...@np...>]

Hi,

> I've changed the subject to something more appropriate.
> 
> > On 12/19 02:06 , Michael Mansour wrote:
> > > I'm upto the bit where I've made the mod_perl cgi-bin work, but the 
> webpage 
> > > produced has a white background with the top left icon missing (the 
one 
> > > which links to http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ 
> > > 
> > > Going to the properties of this image takes me to: 
> > > 
> > > http://logo.gif/ 
> > > 
> > > Where can I check/set the web path correctly here? 
> > > 
> > > The web page I see from the cgi script looks nothing like the sample 
> screens 
> > > on the backuppc sourceforge site.
> > 
> > what linux distro are you using?
> > what's the version of BackupPC you're installing?
> 
> I emailed this info just after sending the original email. SL 4.4 
> and the latest v3.0.0beta3.
> 
> > Debian Linux has a package for it that makes installation trivial. 
> > If you'd like a quick experiment and example of how it can work; my 
> > advice would be to use Knoppix to try it out. Knoppix is debian-
> > based; and you can actually install packages to the ramdrive (tho 
> > they'll be lost at the next reboot). Alternatively, you can install 
> > knoppix to the hard drive of some computer
> > (a much better option), and do an 'apt-get install backuppc'. 
> > that'll install it and do almost all of the server-side 
> > configuration, and give you an example localhost backup file.
> > 
> > only takes a little while to try it out that way; and if you insist 
> > on installing backuppc to another machine, it will at least give you 
> > a working example you can look at.
> 
> Yeah I understand, but that's not really going to help me much as I 
> run SL throughout my environment on every single machine.
> 
> The problem isn't that the cgi doesn't work, it's that it has some 
> problems displaying what it should be displaying. That may be due to 
> a few factors but I'd imagine I'm not the only one running BackupPC 
> on a RHEL based server.

For the benefit of the list, I worked out what the problem was.

In the config.pl file this entry was needed:

$Conf{CgiImageDirURL} = '';

As I setup a virtual server dedicated to backuppc, andI had in there '/'; to 
indicate the root of the html tree but this caused that issue. When I 
removed the "/" it worked fine.

Regards,

Michael.