[mythtv-users] Securing Mythweb

[Brad DerManouelian]

Harry Devine wrote:
> Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>> 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"

> 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

No idea. I don't know what you changed it to or what your "external" 
address is. Do you have access to a box outside of your network? You 
could ssh into it, then wget back to your server to see if it works. (Or 
ssh -Y and use a browser on the external machine and put the GUI on your 
machine.)