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.
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