[mythtv-users] Running MythWeb on a Different Server to MythBackend

[Nick Rosier]

On 29/09/05, Nick Rosier <nick.rosier at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29/09/05, Ian Barton <lists at manor-farm.org> wrote:
> > For various reasons I want to run MythWeb on a different server to the
> > one where MythBackend is installed.
> >
> > First off I installed MythWeb on the same server as the backend, where
> > it works OK. Next I moved the files to another box on the same network
> > runnning Apache2. I edited my conf.php:
> >
> >
> > //  How to access the database
> > //
> >     define('db_host',     '192.168.0.21');
> >     define('db_username', 'mythtv');
> >     define('db_password', 'mythtv');
> >     define('db_dbname',   'mythconverg');
> >
> > Now when I try to access MythWeb via the webserver that is not running
> > on the same box as MythBackend I get the following error:
> >
> > Warning at /var/www/vhosts/wilkesley/mythweb/includes/mythbackend.php,
> > line 102:
> > fsockopen(): unable to connect to 127.0.0.1:6543
>
> > Note that the error says that it can't connect to 127.0.0.1 not
> > 192.168.0.21, which is what I have in my conf.php. This suggests that
> > mythbackend.php isn't picking up the value from the configuration file.
> > Has anyone else seen this problem?
>
> In the mythfrontend-settings, change your backend to 192.168.0.21 in
> stead of 127.0.0.1 and try again.

It might also be in mythtv-setup. You need to change the IP-adres your
backend will listen to. It's simular to running a seperate
front/backend setup.

N.