[mythtv-users] Securing Mythweb

[Harry Devine]

Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> Harry Devine wrote:
>   
>> Well, it looks like I spoke too soon.  This, in fact, isn't working.  
>> When I try to connect to my Mythweb internally from home, I get in 
>> (since I allow my internal IP segments in without prompting for a 
>> password).  When I try connecting internally using my DynDNS.org 
>> account, I get prompted for the username/password, then it displays my 
>> Mythweb pages.  However, it changes in the address bar to 
>> http://hjdmyth/mythweb, which is my INTERNAL hostname.  When I try 
>> connecting from outside (i.e. from my office at work) using my 
>> DynDNS.org account, I get prompted for a password, which I enter 
>> correctly, and get the standard "page cannot be displayed" page.  I was 
>> SSH'd into my box from work when I tried this, and tried to monitor the 
>> error_log and access_log, I didn't see anything unusual.  The error_log 
>> showed no errors at all, and access_log showed the GET for /mythweb, but 
>> nothing else.
>>
>> Any ideas on where I should go from here?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Harry
>>     
>
> Actually, it is working, but you need to configure your hostname 
> correctly. Probably this part of your mythweb.conf file:
>          # By default, MythWeb uses the hostname program to look up the 
> hostname of the
>          # machine it runs on.  If this reports incorrect data, or you 
> run MythWeb on a
>          # machine without the hostname program, set this to your 
> current hostname.
>          #
>          #   setenv hostname         "my_mythbox"
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>   
OK, I made the change and restarted httpd.  If I connect to my 
"external" address from my internal LAN, it asks me for my 
username/password, then changes the address bar to 
http://hjdmyth/mythweb (hjdmyth is my hostname).  I can't try a real 
outside external test until tomorrow, but I will from work.  So you're 
saying that this should work now?

Thanks,
Harry