[mythtv-users] Google ate my recordings

Glenn Chubak glenn at saskatoon.com
Tue Oct 24 18:12:57 UTC 2006


First, I do recognize that I am an idiot and that this is entirely my fault.  
The point of this post is mostly a reminder to not be stupid like me.

I recently migrated my myth install to a new server and rather than setup the 
appropriate security on mythweb I just blocked outside access.  It was good 
enough for the moment.  My daughter's first birthday comes along and I want 
to through a video up for an aunt that couldn't come so I (ENTIRELY without 
thinking) enable http access from outside on the server.  Stupid!  The next 
day my wife says that about 3:00 all of the recordings disappeared from myth.  
Strange...  I begin investigating and find that they have been deleted from 
the web interface.  Checking the apache access logs reveals that the culprit 
is none other than googlebot which seems to have crawled my pages and 
followed the link into mythweb.  googlebot seems to have followed the delete 
links and voila no more recordings.

I would have thought that mythweb "Are you sure?" dialogs would have stopped 
the googlebot but it doesn't seem so.  If anyone is interested I can post the 
access logs from apache.

Glenn






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