[mythtv-users] IMDB lookup fails in MythWeb 0.21

[Johnny Russ]

There are no error messages in my apache error.log file. Apache has rx 
permissions on the full path to imdb.pl.

I copied the imdb.pl to my mythweb directory as you suggested, and then 
everything worked. Next I changed it back to the old path making sure 
that I had it typed correctly. Now it works fine with the original path. 
Maybe the default that was in before had some sort of typo. Or I read 
that someone else had a problem where mythweb located the path 
automatically and filled it in, but it isn't actually saved into the 
database. You have to click the save button at least once before all of 
the settings are written to the database. Maybe that was this issue 
here. Either way everything is working now. Thanks for the help.

-Johnny

Brad DerManouelian wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2008, at 9:07 PM, Johnny Russ wrote:
>
>   
>> I saw other threads discussing that solution, but I didn't think that
>> they applied to my situation. Those threads indicated that there was  
>> an
>> error message when that path was incorrect. I only have one machine  
>> that
>> functions as both my frontend and backend. The 'Path to imdb.pl on  
>> this
>> webserver:' is set to '/usr/share/mythtv/mythvideo/scripts/imdb.pl'.
>> This is a local address so I believe the webserver can access it. How
>> can I check to make sure? Any other ideas about what could be going  
>> wrong?
>>     
>
> The apache user needs rx access to that file and I believe read access  
> to every directory leading to that file.
> If you're not familiar with file permissionsm, you can read up on it  
> here: http://www.freeos.com/articles/3127/
>
> I ended up copying my imdb.pl script to the mythweb directory and  
> changing my settings to use that one.
> If permissions is the problem, you should get an access denied error  
> in your error.log for apache.
>
> -Brad
>
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