[mythtv-users] MythWeb Suggestion..

[Richard Whittaker]

I also went the httpd.conf <Directory> route.  Here's how to do it.

Edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
Immediately following the closing Directory tag for the /var/www/html 
Directory (around line 329) insert a new Directory element:

<Directory "/var/www/html/mythweb">
     AuthType Basic
     AuthName "MythWeb"
     AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/conf/passwords
     require valid-user
</Directory>

While your in httpd.conf, you may want to modify the line that reads 
"Listen 80".  Most ISPs block port 80 to keep bad people like us from 
running servers.  I changed mine to "Listen 8080".

Next, run the following command, as root:

# htpasswd -c /etc/httpd/conf/passwords mythtv

Change "mythtv" to whatever user you want to use.  It will ask you for a 
password, enter it (twice).  Now simply do this:

# /etc/init.d/httpd restart

If you don't have a domain name, you may want to sign up for a free 
redirect at http://www.no-ip.com - I use it and it works great.  To hit 
your server from the outside, just go to the URL:

http://<your ip address>:8080/mythweb

If your server is running on port 80, you don't need to put the port in 
the URL.

Good luck ;-)

Richard Whittaker

Tom Elsesser wrote:

>On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 20:07:18 -0400, "Matt Hannan"
><matthew.j.hannan at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>Dude, if you could walk me thru that I would appreciate it!
>>I have been all over the Google and have done everything apparently
>>right, but no joy.
>>It seems that (from Googling) that I am not alone.
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>http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/howto/auth.html
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>I used the <Directory> route rather than .htaccess, but I read this
>doc and had my mythweb password protected in about 6 minutes.
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