First of all, many thanks for the wonderful program. I've been using it
for nearly 6 months now, and I'm very happy with it.
Now, I want to give the CGI control interface a try. I have a dedicated
backup host, namely "bckserver", on which the BackupPC server is running
(and stores backups) as user backuppc. Since I don't want to install
unneeded things on this host, and moreover I already have another host
(called "webserver") with apache installed, I'm trying to use the CGI
interface from this second host.
This is what I did so far:
- on bckserver, I put this in the general config.pl:
[cut]
$Conf{ServerHost} = `hostname`;
chomp($Conf{ServerHost});
[cut]
$Conf{ServerPort} = 8888; # was: -1
[cut]
$Conf{ServerMesgSecret} = 'a-very-hard-to-guess-string';
And, when starting BackupPC -d, I can see that port 8888 is actually
listening.
- on webserver, I put this in config.pl:
[cut]
$Conf{ServerHost} = 'bckserver';
chomp($Conf{ServerHost});
[cut]
$Conf{ServerPort} = 8888;
[cut]
$Conf{ServerMesgSecret} = 'a-very-hard-to-guess-string';
Now, if I browse to http://webserver/cgi-bin/BackupPC_Admin, I see
(correctly) that the server is running on host bckserver, but I cannot
see the host list. If I copy over the "hosts" file from bckserver to
webserver, the host list appears and I can start backups, but they are
not shown and can not be browsed, although they complete succesfully.
At the moment, on webserver, only the general "config.pl" and "hosts"
files are installed (along with the CGI, of course).
It seems that the CGI program is expecting to find data about backups,
logs, etc. on the same host it's running on, instead of reading this
information from the server via the TCP socket.
Is this the expected behaviour? Or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks for any help.
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