[mythtv-users] Securing Mythweb

[Brad DerManouelian]

Harry Devine wrote:
> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> Harry Devine wrote:
>>   
>>> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Actually, it is working, but you need to configure your hostname 
>>>> correctly. Probably this part of your mythweb.conf file:
>>>>          # By default, MythWeb uses the hostname program to look up the 
>>>> hostname of the
>>>>          # machine it runs on.  If this reports incorrect data, or you 
>>>> run MythWeb on a
>>>>          # machine without the hostname program, set this to your 
>>>> current hostname.
>>>>          #
>>>>          #   setenv hostname         "my_mythbox"
>>>>       
>>   
>>> OK, I made the change and restarted httpd.  If I connect to my 
>>> "external" address from my internal LAN, it asks me for my 
>>> username/password, then changes the address bar to 
>>> http://hjdmyth/mythweb (hjdmyth is my hostname).  I can't try a real 
>>> outside external test until tomorrow, but I will from work.  So you're 
>>> saying that this should work now?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Harry
>>>     
>> No idea. I don't know what you changed it to or what your "external" 
>> address is. Do you have access to a box outside of your network? You 
>> could ssh into it, then wget back to your server to see if it works. (Or 
>> ssh -Y and use a browser on the external machine and put the GUI on your 
>> machine.)
>>
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> Well, my Myth box is 192.168.1.200 and my laptop is 192.168.1.102.  From 
> the laptop I can connect without a prompt going to 
> http://hjdmyth/mythweb.  From the same laptop, if I go to 
> <blah,blah,blah>.dyndns.org/mythweb (I masked out the first part; not 
> really important or relevant), I get prompted, then once the MythWeb 
> page shows up, I see the address bar change to hjdmyth/mythweb.  I get 
> the same thing when I try from my office PC, except the page doesn't 
> show up.  I get "page cannot be displayed".
> 
> Does that make sense?
> Harry

You need to make sure it resolves to <blah,blah,blah>.dyndns.org
No machine outside of your network is going to know what hjdmyth is.