[mythtv-users] mythweb broken by latest update

Greg greg12866 at nycap.rr.com
Tue Apr 5 16:30:47 UTC 2011


On 04/05/2011 12:19 PM, Greg Woods wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 18:16 -0400, Greg wrote:
>
>> I had a similar problem a few weeks ago..
>> Bill Meeks pointed me in the right direction. His answer was:
>> Hi;
>>
>> MythBackend.php now gets installed in:
>>
>>     ...share/mythtv/bindings/php/MythBackend.php,
>>
>> not in ...share/mythtv/mythweb.
>>
>> Even though you updated mythweb (git clone...), it appears that you
>> didn't copy it to /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb (or point to the new
>> source.)
>>
>> You're still using your old MythBackend.php.
> What I had done was:
>
> # cd /usr/local/src/mythtv/mythweb
> # tar cf - . | (cd /var/www/html/mythweb; tar xpf -)
>
> I had no idea there were things that get installed outside of the
> DocumentRoot directory, I actually thought apache was supposed to be
> limited to this area. Rather scary that in fact it is not.
>
> The problem turned out to be that an old version of MythBackend.php was
> sitting in /var/www/html/mythweb/classes . I moved that out of the way,
> restarted httpd, and then it magically found the new one. Thank you for
> pointing me in the right direction. I guess I will have to find a way to
> use something like rsync instead of tar for doing this update, so that
> old files can be removed as well as copying in new ones.
>
> --Greg
>
>
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I added his solution to my notes...I usually can figure this stuff 
out,but that one had me baffled,because Mythweb just always worked...

Glad it I could help....


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