Scratch that...
I remember now -
The apache config file for BackupPC on my system looks like:
AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /etc/BackupPC/apache.users
AuthName "BackupPC"
<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
# Apache 2.4
<RequireAll>
Require valid-user
<RequireAny>
Require local
</RequireAny>
</RequireAll>
</IfModule>
You need to comment out the lines below by putting # in front.
# <RequireAny>
# Require local
# </RequireAny>
I am on Fedora but it sounds like the same problem. The default
configuration restricts access to the local machine only.
David While BSc(Hons) MBCS CEng CITP
On 25/11/2020 15:30, Paul Leyland wrote:
I installed the apache2 and backuppc packages on a Ubuntu 20.04LTS
system but can not use the CGI interface. No mater what I try, I
invariably get a response:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access this resource.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu) Server at ra.home.brnikat.com Port 80
The backuppc sofware seems to be running because
backuppc@ra:/usr/share/backuppc/bin$ ./BackupPC_serverMesg status info
generates plausible output. It looks as if Apache was not configured
properly by the installation procedure. Reading the Backuppc
documentation has not proved enlightening.
I have created a /etc/backuppc/htpasswd which has passwords set both
for my own username (pcl) and for backuppc.
The /var/log/access.log file contains lines such as
192.168.1.104 - - [25/Nov/2020:15:23:54 +0000] "GET /backuppc
HTTP/1.1" 403 501 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.9)
Gecko/20100101 Goanna/4.4 Firefox/68.9 PaleMoon/28.8.4"
with corresponding lines in error.log as
[Wed Nov 25 15:23:54.077976 2020] [authz_core:error] [pid 27014]
[client 192.168.1.104:35534] AH01630: client denied by server
configuration: /usr/share/backuppc/cgi-bin/
but I can not find anything wrong with the permissions of
/usr/share/backuppc/cgi-bin/ or its contents:
root@ra:/var/log/apache2# ls -ld /usr/share/backuppc/cgi-bin/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 25 15:02 /usr/share/backuppc/cgi-bin/
root@ra:/var/log/apache2# ls -ls /usr/share/backuppc/cgi-bin/
total 0
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Nov 12 2019 image -> ../image
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Nov 12 2019 index.cgi ->
../../../lib/backuppc/cgi-bin/index.cgi
root@ra:/var/log/apache2# ls -Lls /usr/share/backuppc/cgi-bin/
total 20
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 25 15:02 image
16 -rwsr-x--- 1 backuppc www-data 14488 Nov 12 2019 index.cgi
Have others seen this behaviour? Does anyone know what might be wrong
and would be willing to help me get things working?
Thanks,
Paul
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