Re: [BackupPC-users] Error: Unable to connect to BackupPC server

[Mladen Z. <ml...@ku...>]

Doug's reply is excellent indeed. I got the interface up and running, but 
there are several pieces of the interface that I'm missing. as I have 
already noted in reply to Doug's mail, I've spoted several screenshots of 
what BackupPC interface looks like on the BackupPC homepage. one of them 
shows browsing of backed up files and another shows restoration procedure. 
I was never able to access/see those screens. how can I access them? could 
it be that there is something wrong with one of the installed perl modules? 
what could prevent viewing of that functionality?

when I run /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg status, this is what 
I get:
Got reply: ok

so, I suppose this is OK.

Doug also helped me solve the "Only privileged users can view log or config 
files" error --- it was apache authentication related error. however, if I 
understood the config.pl right, there is a variable 
($Conf{BackupPCUserVerify}) that if set to 0 should disable authentication. 
when I set it to 0, it does nothing for me. how does this work then? what 
exactly does it check?

I guess that's it for now.

rgds,

Mladen


At 11:06 PM 4/9/2003 -0700, cba...@us... wrote:
> > last night I have installed BackupPC 2.0.0beta1. the whole thing more or
> > less works (it'll need some more tweaking, I guess); I can backup shares
> > OK, but I can't get CGI interface to work properly. it opens up alright (I
> > get to see the left side where I can enter the hosts/users to query data),
> > but there data are not shown at all. what I get is: "Error: Unable to
> > connect to BackupPC server".
>
>Beyond Doug's excellent reply, you should verify that BackupPC is actually
>running.  What happens when you run:
>
>     /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg status
>
> > another error I'm getting is when I want to view data that are specific 
> for
> > selected host. I get: "Error: Only privileged users can view log or config
> > files".
>
>This likely means that you don't have apache setup to authenticate the
>user and set the REMOTE_USER environment variable.  See Doug's notes
>or look at the documentation some more.
>
>Craig