How to install Bacula-web

Bacula-Web – a web-based tool for creating reports and monitoring Bacula.

Install the necessary components:

sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql php5-gd
sudo a2enmod php5
sudo a2enmod rewrite

Open the PHP configuration file in the editor and specify the time zone:

sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
date.timezone = Europe/Kiev

And also for the directory with Bacula-Web we specify the option:

sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf
<Directory /var/www/html/bacula-web>
AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Restart apache2 to apply the changes:

sudo service apache2 restart

Let’s go to the web server directory, download the archive with the latest version of Bacula-web and unpack it:

cd /var/www/html
curl -O http://www.bacula-web.org/files/bacula-web.org/downloads/bacula-web-latest.tgz
mkdir -v /var/www/html/bacula-web
tar -xzf bacula-web-latest.tgz -C /var/www/html/bacula-web

Make a copy of the sample configuration file and open it for example in the text editor nano:

cd /var/www/html/bacula-web/application/config
cp -v config.php.sample config.php
sudo nano /var/www/html/bacula-web/application/config/config.php

Uncomment and configure MySQL parameters:

$config[0]['label'] = 'Backup Server';
$config[0]['host'] = 'localhost';
$config[0]['login'] = 'bacula';
$config[0]['password'] = 'test';
$config[0]['db_name'] = 'bacula';
$config[0]['db_type'] = 'mysql';
$config[0]['db_port'] = '3306';

Since some commands were executed through sudo, we will specify the correct owner of the files:

sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/bacula-web

This completes the installation, you can open the Bacula-Web from the http://SERVER/bacula-web link, and also it is advisable to look at the http://SERVER/bacula-web/test.php test page that will tell you whether all the necessary components are installed and configured.

See also:
Installing and Configuring Bacula

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