[mythtv-users] Mythweb Permissions

[Michael T. Dean]

On 07/03/2012 01:20 AM, Geoff B wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm having ongoing problems with Mythweb, with the same symptoms described
> in the earlier thread:
> http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-July/336246.html
>
> Namely, trying to download any recording file results in the system not
> being able to find the file:
> 1435_20120617012900.mpg does not exist in any recognized storage group
> directories for this host.
>
> I figured it must be permissions, but I'm having trouble keeping track of
> all the directories that I need to check and tried to trace them through
> (snipping everything except for recordings links, for now).  Can someone
> tell me if the following looks right?
>
> The mythweb directories (as I understand them!) - are there any others I
> should check:
>
> geoff at bertha:/var/lib/mythtv$ ls -la /var/www/mythweb
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Jul  2 20:04 /var/www/mythweb ->
> /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb
> (is this even relevant?)
>
> geoff at bertha:/var/lib/mythtv$ ls -la /var/www/mythweb/data/
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       26 Jul  3 00:04 recordings ->
> /var/lib/mythtv/recordings
> As I understand it, I can't change the permissions of this link; doing so
> acts on the target.. which is:
>
> geoff at bertha:/var/lib/mythtv$ ls -la /var/lib/mythtv/
> drwxrwsrwx  2 mythtv mythtv 4096 May  5 18:05 recordings
>
> The files are actually stored using Storage Groups, in a NAS mounted on
> /mnt/nfs/mythtv. BEFORE I mount it:
>
> geoff at bertha:/var/lib/mythtv$ ls -al /mnt/nfs/
> drwxrwxrwx  2 mythtv users 4096 May  5 18:45 mythtv
>
> AFTER mounting:
> geoff at bertha:/var/lib/mythtv$ ls -al /mnt/nfs/
> drwxrwxrwx+ 14 mythtv users 4096 Jun 22 23:32 mythtv
>
> geoff at bertha:/var/lib/mythtv$ ls -al /mnt/nfs/mythtv
> drwxrwxrwx+  2 mythtv   users    20480 Jul  3 00:57 recordings
>
> Finally, the file in question (but it behaves the same for all videos):
> geoff at bertha:/var/lib/mythtv$ ls -al
> /mnt/nfs/mythtv/recordings/1435_20120617012900.mpg
> -rw-r--r--+ 1 mythtv mythtv 17988312256 Jun 17 05:06
> /mnt/nfs/mythtv/recordings/1435_20120617012900.mpg
>
> I'm on a combined FE/BE, running Mythbuntu 0.25-fixes.
> Any help would be appreciated!

Check out your Apache configuration, specifically things like 
FollowSymLinks and SymLinksIfOwnerMatch and such...

Mike