[mythtv-users] Cannot access videos through Mythweb

[Justin Johnson]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Justin
Johnson<justin.johnson3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I recently had to reinstall Myth after a hard drive failure, luckily I
> was able to get my DB from a backup and all my video files. However in
> mythweb when viewing the videos, if I try to click on one to watch it
> the file is not found. The link is pointing to
> http://site.com/mythweb/data/var/lib/mythtv/videos/<filename>. I've
> never seen this before and obviously it's not right. My videos are
> stored in /var/lib/mythtv/videos and the /var/www/mythweb/data/video
> is properly linked. Other symptoms include the Directory Structure in
> the left-hand corner is empty and all video covers are missing. I'm
> guessing these are all related to mythweb looking in the wrong place.
> I'm able to view the videos fine in the frontend. My mythweb version
> is 0.21.0+fixes20931-0ubuntu0+mythbuntu3.
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
> --Justin Johnson
>

I figured out the problem, just thought I'd post it here in case
anyone has the same problem.

In /etc/apache2/sites-available/mythweb.conf I had uncommented the
setenv hostname line, in an effort to correct another problem. By
commenting this line out the directories were once again properly
found.
--Justin Johnson