Making web interface accessible

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Hello,

I’m trying to set the UrBackup server in order to have it accessible from all the PCs in our network. I’m almost done… but I can only get the title bar and not the login form. :frowning:

I’m using a CentOS 7 as server, with Apache, mod_ssl, openssl correctly configured: at least, I can see Apache’s test page.

I added a sym-link in /var/www/html to the UrBackup web interface, and gave to all its directories the “+x permission” (otherwise Apache can’t read its contents).

Since Apache bundled with CentOS hasn’t got the “original” FastCGI in its repositories, I installed the “replacement” mod_fcgi. Then I added this configuration file in /etc/https/conf.d:

<Directory "/usr/share/urbackup/www">
    Options +FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
</Directory>

<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm
</IfModule>

ProxyPass "/x" "fcgi://127.0.0.1:55413"

(I got here info about how to replace the FastCGIExternalServer line, from another topic in this forum)

As mentioned before, when I try to load UrBackup’s web interface from another PC, I can only see the header bar, without the menus, and a “hanging” rotating circle. I checked Apache’s ssl_access.log and it seems there’s a “404 - Not found” error:

192.168.10.68 - - [03/Oct/2017:14:39:10 +0200] "POST /urbackup/x?a=login HTTP/1.1" 404 208

I also tried to change the last line in

ProxyPass "/urbackup/x" "fcgi://127.0.0.1:55413"

Nothing changes “from the outside”. This time the log recorded a “503 - Service unavailable” error:

192.168.10.68 - - [03/Oct/2017:14:39:41 +0200] "POST /urbackup/x?a=login HTTP/1.1" 503 299

Is something else needed to set up the web server?

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Make that two people with this problem. Can only get the title bar to load, and when inspecting the web page, I get this error “POST https://X.X.X.X/x?a=login 404 (Not Found).” It does make a reference to this Javascript “jquery.chash-9f7c65c84c8e8c3e317945e8fd89899b.js:4” in /usr/share/urbackup/www/js/ but my javascript skills are pretty not good enough to decipher what it is trying to do. Thanks

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Hi,
I installed today urbackup on debian 10 and got the apache2 with ssl to work. I used the home:uroni project hier:

https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Auroni&package=urbackup-server

After installing apache2 all you need to do is to enable the ssl, proxy and the proxy_fcgi modules:

a2enmod ssl proxy proxy_fcgi

then disable the default vhost:

a2dissite 000-default.conf

create urbackup vhost:

vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/urbackup.conf

with the following content:

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	ServerName urbackup.local.domain
	DocumentRoot /usr/share/urbackup/www/
	Redirect permanent / https://urbackup.local.domain/

	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

</VirtualHost>

<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
	<VirtualHost _default_:443>
		ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
		ServerName urbackup.local.domain
		DocumentRoot /usr/share/urbackup/www/

		ServerSignature Off
		SSLProxyEngine On
		ProxyPreserveHost On
		ProxyPass "/x" "fcgi://localhost:55413"

		ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
		CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

		SSLEngine on
		SSLCertificateFile	/etc/ssl/certs/mycert.crt
		SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/mykey.key

		<FilesMatch "\.(cgi|shtml|phtml|php)$">
				SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
		</FilesMatch>
		<Directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin>
				SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
		</Directory>
	</VirtualHost>
</IfModule>

# vim: syntax=apache ts=4 sw=4 sts=4 sr noet

You need to adjust the ServerName and the mycert.crt and mykey.key.
Last step is to enable you vhost and restart apache2:

a2ensite urbackup.conf
service apache2 restart

I hope this will help some one.

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