Testing the Installation

• Run test.php from your web browser. It should produce output that looks like:

  Checking system for dependencies...
  
   Checking gettext:  YES   Language support enabled    
   Checking Pear(DB): YES   Pear DB enabled    
   Checking GD:       YES   GD support enabled    
  
  
   Please, click the link below to test your graph system capabilities
   (Bacula-web only use PNG): Test
  

• If gettext, Pear(DB) and GD all indicate yes, then things are going in the right direction. If not, you should correct each one before proceeding.

• If Pear(DB) is not installed and you have PHP 4.3.11 or newer, you can use the command:

  pear install DB
  

  to install it.

  After installing it, check by doing:

  pear list
  

  On my machine (Kern), I get:

  Installed packages:
  ===================
  Package              Version State
  Archive_Tar          1.1     stable
  Console_Getopt       1.2     stable
  DB                   1.7.6   stable
  HTML_Template_IT     1.1     stable
  HTTP                 1.3.5   stable
  Mail                 1.1.4   stable
  Net_SMTP             1.2.6   stable
  Net_Socket           1.0.6   stable
  Net_UserAgent_Detect 2.0.1   stable
  PEAR                 1.3.5   stable
  XML_Parser           1.2.6   stable
  XML_RPC              1.4.0   stable
  

• When everything is installed, click on the Test link at the bottom, which will bring up a new page with a number of PHPlot test graphs, using GD. It should be pretty obvious if they work, if not, you must correct the problems.

• If your graphs are not being reproduced, check that your PHP was built with the --with-gd option, and possibly with --with-png-dir=DIR where DIR is the path to the libpng installation directory.

• One of the most common problem is improper configuration of the variables in bacula.config that define the database. If you see nothing but a blank screen or error messages, please recheck your database definitions paying careful attention to ensure that the database name and password are correct and that the database engine is running.

• If you get an error such as DB Error: not found assuming your database is MySQL, try using the following command:

  mysql -h<host> -u<login> -p <db_name>

  where, <host>, <login>, and <db_name> are the values you put in your bacula.conf file under the DATABASE section as in:

  [.DATABASE]
  host = 192.168.1.120
   
  login = bacula-user
  pass =
  db_name = bacula
  db_type = mysql
  

  in this case, the mysql command would be:

  mysql -h192.168.1.120 -ubacula-user -p bacula

• If you get an error such as DB Error: connection failed assuming your database is PostgreSQL, make sure that TCP/IP-Connections to your bacula database are allowed via pg_hba.conf.

• If nothing seems to be working and you are using SELinix, please remember that you must have the correct contexts for the bacula-web files. Assuming you have installed the files in /var/www/html/bacula-web, you can most likely fix the contexts with a command such as:

  chcon -t httpd_sys_content_t /var/www/html/bacula-web/ -R