[mythtv-users] Apache/MythWeb progress (Gentoo): access from LAN?

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi James,

Sunday, April 26, 2015, 10:55:37 PM, you wrote:

> This note will describe recent developments in my saga to get my 
> semi-operational MythTV installation fully operational. I gave up on 
> nginx/php and installed Apache and, after having initial results like 
> those I was seeing trying to get nginx/php to serve MythWeb, I began 
> editing some files (some Apache config files as well as webapp-config).
> I'm a bit uncomfortable doing this since my understanding of how all this
> works is quite sketchy. Nonetheless, after some further editing of those
> files and fiddling with some ownership/group settings, I can now actually
> view MythWeb and schedule recordings--but only from localhost. When I try
> to browse to the MythTV FE/BE using http://IP/mythweb from another machine
> on my LAN, the page just loads forever before timing out with a blank 
> page.

> Given that I'm not entirely certain why this even started working from
> locahost, I'm not really sure what could be interfering with it working
> from other hosts on my LAN. Could be an Apache misconfiguration, or 
> perhaps even an OS issue. Can anyone offer suggestions as to what to check
> in order to get MythWeb accessible outside localhost? Thanks.
> _______________________________________________

Try adding:
ServerName <your ip-number>
to the top of your apache config: /etc/apache2/httpd.conf


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