On 17-Feb-12 12:35, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Zach Lanich <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > How do I access my backuppc interface from outside the local > network? I have a webserver set up through isp config and I can get > to my website I built but isp gives me a 500 error when i try to > access backuppc. > > > The packaged apache config probably restricts access to the local host. > In the EPEL rpm that would be in /etc/httpd/conf.d/BackupPC.conf, but > the ubuntu version might be somewhere else. If you can find it, change > it to allow from all and restart apache (if you are sure you want to do > that...).
"If you are sure you want to do that..." Re-read Les' last sentence a few times and let it really sink in before going further with this. BackupPC has essentially root-level access to all your backed-up systems, and certainly has access to all their file data (and can restore back onto them, probably). Do you *really* feel confident that the way you log in to BackupPC over the web is secure? Using only HTTPS? Checking certificates properly? Even with that, you're 100% sure your webserver can't be compromised from the outside? If you really need this, perhaps a better thing to do would be to SSH in to the host and set up a tunnel over that SSH connection to reach your BackupPC server. -- Steve Willoughby / [email protected] "A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." PGP Fingerprint 4615 3CCE 0F29 AE6C 8FF4 CA01 73FE 997A 765D 696C ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ 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/
