CUPS web config 403 Forbidden

[chrisbay90]

Hi all,

I recently set up a headless ubuntu server (ubuntu server 9.10). As well as many other things i would like to use it as a printer server. Being a headless machine, i would like to configure cups using the webui from another computer on the lan. However when i browse to http://server:631/ i get a 403 forbiden error.

I install cups on the server (Ubuntu server 9.10)
configured cupsd.conf as per https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/serverguide/C/cups.html
browsed to it from a ubuntu 9.04 machine using firefox on the same lan and got an 403 forbiden error.

I also tried adding the local account on the server to the lpadmin group

sudo usermod -aG lpadmin username

but that made no difference. I do not get prompted for a username/password at all when i try to get the webui up.

Am i missing anything? Can some shed any light on how i might resolve this issue?

[suseendran.rengabashyam]

Hi,

Solution 1:

Open the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

In the blocks:

<Location /> , <Location /admin> and <Location /admin/conf>

Add the following line :

Allow all

Restart the CUPS server and check whether you get the same error.

You may look at
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=310450 for more details.

Solution 2:

In the terminal, enter the following command

sudo cupsctl --remote-admin

and restart the CUPS server.

Hope this helps.

[chrisbay90]

Thank you very much suseendran.rengabashyam that worked perfectly.

[vancheese]

That last command worked a treat for me too - Thanks for posting it

[rangi500]

Solution 2 worked nicely for me too (I didn't try solution 1). However it seems to completely rewrite your cups config file (/etc/cupsd.conf) so be warned!

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