[mythtv-users] Mythweb is borked

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Tue Aug 24 09:50:15 UTC 2010


Mark Adams wrote:
> My deepest apologies.  This message was initially sent under the 
> incorrect subject "Webmin is borked".  My issue has exactly nothing to 
> do with webmin, but I'm really tired and frustrated here.  Again, I do 
> apologize.  I am reposting under the actual subject.
> 
> Okay, I was trying to get mythweb setup on my primary server (all of the 
> machines in question here are Mandriva 2010.0, installed from rpm) so 
> that I could access it from work. It was working just fine from my htpc. 
> I installed and setup MythTV on my server and attempted to get the new 
> installation to connect to the database on the httpd.  I couldn't get it 
> to work, but I did manage to get Mythweb on the htpc to stop responding. 
> I'm getting  error 403:
> 
> Access forbidden!
> You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either 
> read-protected or not readable by the server.
> If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster 
> <mailto:root at shuttle>.
> 
> pvr <http://pvr/>
> Apache/2.2.14 (Mandriva Linux/PREFORK-1.5mdv2010.0)
> I've tried setting permissions on everything in the /var/www/mythweb 
> directory to 777.   I had password authentication setup in apache.
> 
> #<Directory "/var/www/mythweb">
> #    AllowOverride None
> #    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
> #    AuthType Basic
> #    AuthName "MythTV"
> #    AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/conf/httpd-passwords
> #    require valid-user
> #    Order allow,deny
> #    Allow from all
> #</Directory>
> 
> As you can see by the hash marks, that was the first thing to go.
> 
> The /etc/httpd/conf/webapps.d/mythweb.conf file looks like this:
> 
> Alias /mythweb /var/www/mythweb
> 
> <Directory /var/www/mythweb>
>     Order allow,deny
>     Deny from all
>     Allow from all
> </Directory>
> 
> There is no .htaccess file in /var/www/mythweb, though I did try 
> creating one at one point.  It didn't fix the problem.
> 
> I've been restarting httpd after every change and clearing browser cache 
> fairly regularly.  I've rebooted the machine a couple of times.  
> Everything else on the web server works just fine. For example, I can 
> access phpmyadmin and dokuwiki just fine.  At one point, I even 
> uninstalled mythweb and the myth backend and then reinstalled them.  
> Nothing is helping.  What is it I don't know about this stuff?  What am 
> I missing?
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction on this?
> 
> I would deeply appreciate it.
> 
I got bitten by this. Basically, whoever packaged mythtv for Mandriva had *no* 
idea how mythweb functions, so what gets installed is a load of garbage.

The way round it is to find the documentation installed with mythtv (sorry, 
different computer, can't remember the location). Follow the instructions there 
for installing mythweb and it should burst into life.

Of course, you may have to clear out some of the junk which Mandriva installed 
to do this. IIRC, I didn't have to move anything to a different place, change 
ownership or permissions or anything like that to get it to work.

If you have any more problems, email me and I'll find out exactly what I did and 
report back.

-- 

Mike Perkins



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