[mythtv-users] mythweb .htaccess link is broken after recent upgrade

[Johnny]

> Mythweb does not use 'htaccess' files any longer.  There should be a generic
> httpd.conf file that came with mythweb for you to include from your base
> apache settings config.  Usually, prebuilt packages will come with a
> customized version of this file, such that it will be configured to work
> with where your distro places files and sets up apache.

OK that is good to know. I went ahead and removed the .htaccess link,
but mythweb still fails with the following:

    Database Setup Error

    The database environment variables are not correctly set in the
    webserver conf or .htaccess file. Please read through the comments
    included in the file and set up the db_* environment variables correctly.

    Some possible solutions are to make sure that mod_env is enabled
    in httpd.conf, as well as having followed the instructions in the
    README and INSTALL files.

I tried downgrading to previous packages, purging and doing clean
installs and nothing fixes the problem. I am running Ubuntu 8.10. All
of my mythweb stuff is located in /var/www/mythweb. I see there is a
file mythweb.conf.apache in that directory. It seems to have the
correct database setup:

            setenv db_server        "localhost"
            setenv db_name          "mythconverg"
            setenv db_login         "mythtv"
            setenv db_password      "mythtv"

I read the INSTALL file as the error suggested. There was no conf file
for mythweb in /etc/apache2/conf.d so I created a symlink
/etc/apache2/conf.d/mythweb.conf -->
/usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/mythweb.conf.apache. Still having the same
problem. I am out of ideas.