[mythtv-users] Remote Record Scheduling ??
Steve Daniels
steve.p.daniels at googlemail.com
Sat Apr 15 09:21:12 UTC 2006
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Brian Wood
> Sent: 14 April 2006 03:13
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Remote Record Scheduling ??
>
>
> On Apr 13, 2006, at 7:55 PM, Stephen Boddy wrote:
>
> > On Friday 14 April 2006 01:03, Greg Woods wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 17:35 -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> >>> Any thoughts on a way to schedule a recording from anywhere on the
> >>> net without having to enable full-time access to your system from
> >>> the
> >>> outside world ?
> >>
> >> I do it using SSH port forwarding. Something like this:
> >>
> >> $ ssh -L 80:backend:80 myserver.mydomain
> >
> > Why use the priviledged port and root account?!?
> >
> > just make it 8080:backend:80, and have a second url bookmarked for
> > when you
> > remotely access. (http://localhost:8080/mythweb)
> >
>
> Of course, any browser can do port 8080 (slaps self on forehead).
>
> That would solve part of the problem, since I'm directing port 80
> traffic to another machine. I didn't want to use a non-standard port
> because the machine at the "library" wouldn't be able to do that,
> don't know why I didn't think of port 8080, just stupidity I guess.
>
> Still wouldn't work form a phone though. I'm thinking more and more
> of the "send myth an email" approach somehow.
Could, on this other machine, if you've got it running apache, set up a
reverse proxy? (You'd need to do a bit of url rewriting with mod_proxy to
solve the absolute paths feature that someone else was recently have
problems with, but that goes hand in hand with the unstandardness of reverse
proxies ;-)
HTH
Steve
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