[mythtv-users] Accessing MythWeb through firewall

[Robin Hill]

On Mon Oct 30, 2006 at 05:41:00PM +1100, Phill Edwards wrote:

> I have MythWeb installed and running on a server which sits behind my
> firewall at home. There is no direct access to it from the internet
> except through my linux gateway which sits between it and the
> internet. The gateway box is another linux server which is running an
> IP Tables firewall and has a port forwarding rule to direct traffic on
> a particular port (12000) to port 80 on my MythWeb box. This works a
> treat.
> 
> But...where I'm working now has most outgoing ports blocked except for
> 80, 443 etc, which means I can't access port 12000 on my gateway
> machine so it can't forward that to my MythWeb machine.
> 
> I was wondering what suggestions people had for resolving this. I was
> thinking that I could use a mod_rewrite rule on my gateway machine's
> Apache config - eg if URL=http://<gateway.on.internet>/mythtv then
> redirect to real MythWeb box. But when I had a quick look at this I
> got the impression it wouldn't work because it sends a redirect
> command back to the client.
> 
> Any suggestions, anyone (apart from getting a hole punched in my
> company's firewall!)
> 
Similar to your mod_rewrite idea, have you looked at mod_proxy?
Alternatively, use ssh and tunnel the connection to your MythWeb box.

HTH,
        Robin
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