My /etc/httpd/conf.d/BackupPC.conf file (which is the default in Fedora 12) restricts access to localhost (which makes sense) as follows: allow from 127.0.0.1
My /etc/hosts file has these (Fedora default) lines at the top: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 localhost4.localdomain4 mycomputer.mydomain ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 localhost6.localdomain6 mycomputer.mydomain When I access the web interface from my Console, using either http://127.0.0.1/BackupPC or http://localhost/BackupPC, everything works (as expected) and the httpd access_log records the access as coming from 127.0.0.1 However when I access the web interface via an ssh tunnel using -L 8145:localhost:80 and http://127.0.0.1:8145/BackupPC, somehow the address gets translated to ::1 (as shown by the httpd error_log records) which causes access to be denied. Now I know I can fix this either by removing the ::1 line from the hosts file or by adding ::1 to the /etc/httpd/conf.d/BackupPC.conf file. But I want to understand first why in an ssh tunnel the 127.0.0.1:8145 address would be translated to ::1 rather than to 127.0.0.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
