[mythtv-users] Problem with streaming music in mythweb

[Adam Jimerson]

On Tuesday 19 July 2011 10:24:08 PM Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:40:16 -0400, Adam Jimerson <vendion at gmail.com>
> 
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Raymond Wagner  wrote:
> >  On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:45:21 -0400, Adam Jimerson
> >  
> >  wrote:
> >  > I am having problems getting music to stream via Mythweb, I have
> >  > the
> >  
> >  data
> >  
> >  > directory linked to where my music is and can see my music in the
> >  > interface.
> >  > When I build a playlist and download the .m3u file and open it in
> >  > VLC
> > 
> > I
> > 
> >  > can see
> >  > it jump through the songs in the playlist but none of them
> >  > actually
> >  
> >  play.
> >  
> >  > I
> >  > have tried switching from Digest to Basic auth, I have tried
> >  > changing
> >  > 
> >  > 
> >  > 
> >  > to
> >  > 
> >  > 
> >  > 
> >  > In mythweb's Streaming options I have set "Force HTTP for streams"
> >  
> >  "Force
> >  
> >  > HTTP/HTTPS port for streams" to 8080 (same as mythweb), and set
> 
> "Embed
> 
> >  > HTTP
> >  > basic auth user name/password into stream urls" and this still is
> >  > happening.
> >  > 
> >  > Anything I am over looking?
> >  
> >  Is your music stored on a remote frontend, or otherwise somewhere not
> >  accessible to both mythweb and the master backend?
> > 
> > My frontend, backend, and mythweb system is all one box and as I stated
> 
> I
> 
> > linked the directory that has my music to the data directory inside of
> > mythweb 
> 
> Linking the music into the data folder does nothing.  MythWeb pulls the
> music straight from the location defined on the hard drive.  That means the
> user running apache needs to have UNIX file permissions to access it, and
> you need apache Directory directives telling the server to allow access to
> those paths.  That also means you cannot be running apache in a chroot, or
> anything of that sort.  Failing that, MythWeb will attempt to stream the
> content over the XML interface from the backend, which requires that the
> user running the backend have file permissions to access the content.

Here is my permissions for the directory containing my music

drwxr-xr-x 74 vendion users  4096 Jul 18 19:37 Music

the directory and the files within have global read permissions which I thought 
would be enough for it.  Do I need to have the apache directory directives set 
outside of the mythweb configuration file?  
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