[mythtv-users] Strange mythweb error

Pasha Golovko pasha at golovko.org
Sun Apr 29 21:22:19 UTC 2007


Ian Forde wrote:
> (I was thing that I need to enter information for show episodes in
> mythvideo.  So the plan is to (eventually) use imdb.pl in batch form
> against them.  I'd love suggestions on how that could be
> accomplished. ;) )
>
> In any case, I was poking through mythweb, noting that I can do episode
> lookups from within it.  Unfortunately, I received this error in a
> popup:
>
> Fatal Error, IMDB was not set in the settings table, please set it via
> the settings tab.
>
> Huh?  I checked the settings tab for Video, and the webserver (also my
> master backend) has the "path to imdb.pl" set correctly.
>
> ???
>
> 	-I
>   
I had this problem for a while. Here is how I solved it:

- It seems that video settings page in the mythweb does not determine
hostname of the mythweb machine correctly, thus you may need to check
the 'settings' table in the mythconverg to make sure that property
'web_video_imdb_path' has correct hostname (non-empty).
- In case you still have problems with imdb lookups, make sure to
uncomment and edit 'hostname' property in the apache.conf for mythweb.
Using virtual name-based server for mythweb seems to confuse imdb lookup
code as for which hostname to use for property lookup.

Pasha


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