[mythtv-users] After 7y5m running, time to start from scratch after update to .27?
Stephen P. Villano
stephen.p.villano at gmail.com
Thu Nov 28 20:51:24 UTC 2013
On 11/28/13, 9:55 AM, Matthias Thyroff wrote:
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> "Stephen P. Villano" <stephen.p.villano at gmail.com> schrieb:
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> On 11/28/13, 7:47 AM, Paul Clark wrote:
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>> On 27 November 2013 15:03, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org
>> <mailto:newbury at mandamus.org>> wrote:
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>> On 11/27/2013 04:25 AM, Simon Hobson wrote:
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>> If you then want to charge into that part of the
>> map marked 'Here be Dragons', you can add port
>> forwarding to your router for external access for
>> mythweb,
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>> But you **MUST** protect MythWeb from bots - eg add
>> passworded access to Apache. If a bot crawls your
>> recorded programs page, there's a "Delete" link for every
>> recorded program. Similarly, there's a "Don't Record" and
>> "Never Record" link against every rule on your Recordings
>> Rules page. Having those crawls is likely to
>> significantly reduce the WAF !
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>> That's one of the Dragons. Well, more like a scorpion hiding
>> in the grass!
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>> Just an idea (as someone who had this happen to them) but
>> shouldn't a dev add a directive to mythweb to tell the bots not
>> to crawl it? Not sure how these things work but there's a page
>> here <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard>
>> that seems to explain it.
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> The robots.txt file would stop a "law abiding" service like
> Google, it wouldn't stop non-compliant spiders, malware or
> nefarious individuals.
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> Well I do not know what others think about this, but my Apache at home
> is purely private and serves web pages outside home only via SSL and
> password protected.
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Mine has no exposure to the internet, it's all private network and well
away from the DMZ.
If I do put something onto the DMZ, it'd be a VPN connection only.
Can't be too careful!
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