[mythtv-users] Mythweb no longer working: "fatal error"

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Fred,

Monday, November 10, 2014, 5:41:13 AM, you wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>wrote:

 >>> On 9 Nov 2014, at 10:08 am, "Fred Hamilton" <fred at yonkitime.com> wrote:
  >>>
  >>> When I go to mythweb in my browser, the page displayed says:
  >>>
  >>> "Fatal error: Call to a member function query_col() on a non-object in /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/modules/backend_log/init.php on line 15"
  >>>
  >>> LInes 14 and 15 are:
  >>> // Check to see if database logging has been enabled
  >>>     $enabled = $db->query_col('SELECT SUM(data) FROM settings WHERE value="LogEnabled"');
>  
>  

> Try owning the apache log directory by apache.apache and the mythtv
>  log directory by mythtv.mythtv.

> Hoi Hika,

> Did that for myth, but I don't have an "apache" user on my system. 
> Should I?  It used to work and I know I didn't delete any users...

> Dank,
> Fred

I don't know as what user apache is running on your distribution. I's
good practice to not run it as root. On Gentoo the user apache is
used. You could look among present users for a likely candidate.



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