Apache 2.4 transition broke the web interface

[MDill]

The 13.04 to 13.10 upgrade updates apache2 to version 2.4 which no longer reads configurations from the /etc/apache2/conf.d directory. backuppc now needs to symlink /etc/backuppc/apache.conf to /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/backuppc.conf instead of /etc/apache2/conf.d/backuppc.conf as it currently does.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

This was fixed in Debian 3.3.0-1 and needs a merge.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

A workaround is available but on second thoughts this seems like essential package functionality to me.

[matt (matthiasgies)]

Problem also occurs on my freshly installed ubuntu server 13.10 amd64.

[odror (ozdror)]

I have just installed backuppc on AMD64. (fresh install of 13.10)

There is still a problem or the fix is not in the repository. What is the version of the fix|?

[Paul Thompson (whpaul-thompson)]

A temporary workaround is to create a symbolic link in the /etc/apache2/conf-enabled directory to the existing configuration file in /etc/apache2/conf.d directory:

sudo ln -s /etc/apache2/conf.d/backuppc.conf /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/backuppc.conf

restarting the apache2 webserver should re-enable web access to backuppc

[matt (matthiasgies)]

Workaround did not work for me on a freshly installed system. Getting the following error on restart of apache2:

 * Restarting web server apache2
   ...fail!
 * The apache2 configtest failed.
Output of config test was:
apache2: Syntax error on line 216 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/backuppc.conf: No such file or directory
Action 'configtest' failed.
The Apache error log may have more information.

[matt (matthiasgies)]

Instead this workaround worked (like MDill described in the original Bug Description):

ln -s /etc/backuppc/apache.conf /etc/apache2/conf-enabled/backuppc.conf

[Jonathan Pasquier (jonathan-pasquier)]

Same problem here (Ubuntu Gnome 13.10)
matt workaround did work for me though.

When installing backuppc, I got these 3 errors (that looks unrelated, but hey, who knows):
adduser : Attention ! Le répertoire personnel « /var/lib/backuppc » n'appartient pas à l'utilisateur que vous êtes en train de créer.
chown: impossible d'accéder à «/var/lib/backuppc/log/*»: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
AH00558: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message

Thanks matt for the workaround!

[Simon Déziel (sdeziel)]

This is fixed in Xenial.