[mythtv-users] How to set up remote access to mythweb?

[Jeffrey J. Kosowsky]

Tom Dexter wrote at about 17:40:46 -0500 on Monday, December 8, 2008:
 > On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:
 > 
 > > Has anyone put together any docs for getting streaming working with
 > > https?  The docs I've seen just say 'also install it with http - which
 > > kind of defeats the purpose.
 > >
 > > Is there some sort of minimal apache/mythweb config I can use with http
 > > to enable streaming when I put mythweb on https?
 > >
 > > --Yan
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 > 
 > I know this isn't what you're asking, but it's a totally different
 > alternative that's secure and would probably (though I haven't tried)
 > work with streaming as well...and that's to connect remotely to
 > mythweb using an ssh tunnel.  The downside is that it requires that
 > the remote machine you're on have some way to create the ssh
 > tunnel...though I've done it with the linux command line ssh, Putty on
 > windows, as well as the cygwin version of ssh under Windows.  On
 > windows putty would be the easiest to get going.
 > 
 > Since the tunnel you're running through is via ssh, you can browse via
 > plain http and it's still secure.  Here's an example...
 > 
 > Say you're backend is on 192.168.1.101 on your lan and you've opened
 > up a machine on you're lan (could be the backend or any that has sshd
 > running) to external ssh (by properly port forwarding your router) and
 > are hitting it via my_network.dynalias.com.  On a remote machine you
 > could create an ssh tunnel to the backend...for example:
 > 
 > ssh -L localhost:8888:192.168.1.101:80 my_network.dynalias.com
 > 
 > Note that the 8888 could be whatever local port you want.  Once you've
 > done that you've created a tunnel on localhost port 8888 to port 80 on
 > the backend, and you can browse to http://localhost:8888/mythweb
 > securely (even though you're using clear http).
 > 

I use ssh (via Putty) to access everything on my server from my
Windows latop whether I am at home, at work, on vacation, or on the
road. It works great and is surprisingly responsive as long as you are
not looking for video or a lot of gui stuff (web pages are fine since
they are mostly static).

I can forward any points that I want and tunnel anything over ssh so
this keeps me from getting blocked as long as I can set up an ssh
connection. It is all so automated for me now that when something
changes or I want to do something different, half the time I forget
that I am even using ssh, so I can't figure out why 127.0.0.1 doesn't
work from away from home....