[mythtv-users] mythweb not asking for passwords

[Jarom McDonald]

On 08/21/09 07:57, Scott Macdonell wrote:
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>> Not exactly an answer, but my apache asks for the password with or without
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>> Marc
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> Hmmm... I'm on Fedora 11, what are you using? I'm pretty sure I didn't have this problem with fedora 10. When you set it up did you do anything differently than described here: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythWeb#Apache_Configuration
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Troubleshooting Apache directives can always be a little hairy, as there 
are lots of places it might be reading from, causing conflicts and 
overriding what you think is supposed to be happening -- you might want 
to try the following just to orient yourself and make sure the problem 
is really with this script:

1) Ensure that /var/www/html/mythweb/ does NOT contain a .htaccess file 
that might be overriding some of your httpd.conf configurations
2) Remove everything you've added in, so you have a basic httpd.conf 
file that doesn't secure the mythweb folder
3) Ensure that this clean httpd.conf does not reference 
/var/www/html/mythweb anywhere
4) Search through httpd.conf for any "Include" commands, see what files 
it might be including, and ensure that those included files don't have 
any references to /var/www/html/mythweb
5) Make sure that the web root (/var/www/html) does NOT accidentally 
contain any of the mythweb stuff (for example, if somewhere else in the 
httpd.conf file your distro turns on the "MultiViews" directive, and you 
have a mythweb.php script in the web root, then Apache would serve it up 
instead of the mythweb directory when you type in the URL without the 
trailing slash)
6) Add in JUST the following code to httpd.conf (anywhere towards the 
end will do, as long as it's not added inside another directive):

Include /etc/httpd/conf/mythweb.conf

This will allow you to put all your mythweb's httpd.conf stuff in a 
separate file, thus making it easier to troubleshoot.

7) Download this file:

http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/browser/branches/release-0-21-fixes/mythplugins/mythweb/mythweb.conf.apache

and save it as mythweb.conf

(Note that if you installed MythTV from a package repo, there may 
already be a basic one somewhere else ... it could be in the mythweb 
directory, or perhaps in the /etc/httpd/conf.d folder. In fact, if there 
is one in that latter directory, which I think many of the distros 
packages do, then there may be another line somewhere in the httpd.conf 
that, by default, includes everything in that conf.d directory, thus 
overriding all your configurations with the blank ones that the 
mythweb.conf file has and causing the root of your problems!)

Uncomment out these lines:

         AuthType           Digest
         AuthName           "MythTV"
         AuthUserFile       /var/www/htdigest
         Require            valid-user

8) Change "Digest" to "Basic" and the path to the AuthUserFile to 
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd-passwords (to reflect how you mentioned you've 
already set it up)

9) Ensure that the setenv commands in the <Files mythweb.*> directive 
are accurate for your DB installation.

10) Restart apache

If you still have the problem after all of that, well, the only thing 
left I can think of might have to do with the hostname error you 
mentioned in your original post; if apache can't reliably determine your 
machine's hostname (are you properly declaring it in your httpd.conf 
file, either by name or ip address? Does your /etc/hosts file reflect 
that 127.0.0.1 and your LAN IP address can be resolved from all the 
hostnames you may be trying to access the site from?).

Best of luck,
Jarom


-- 
Jarom McDonald
Assistant Research Professor, College of Humanities
Brigham Young University
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