[mythtv-users] Mythcut (Web based cutlist editer) and MythTV .28

[Anthony Giggins]

On 12 May 2016 at 01:27, Mark Boyum <mark at boyum.us> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 8:11 PM Anthony Giggins <
> seven at seven.dorksville.net> wrote:
>
>> On 11 May 2016 at 08:48, Mark Boyum <circushair at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 7:26 AM Anthony Giggins <
>>> seven at seven.dorksville.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 10 May 2016 at 18:25, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 10/05/16 05:04, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> what are your permission to /etc/mythtv/config.xml
>>>>>>
>>>>>> $ ls -al /etc/mythtv/config.xml
>>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data mythtv 425 Feb 17 13:09 /etc/mythtv/config.xml
>>>>>>
>>>>>> That isn't going to work. If mythtv is using this file, it is going
>>>>> to need write permissions to it. Having owner=www-data implies that this
>>>>> file was set up by mythweb which sounds strange.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> Mike Perkins
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I probably changed this somewhere along the line, probably for this
>>>> exact issue. I don't see why mythtv would "need" write permissions in
>>>> theory the file should not change, anyway I tested on the 0.28 system with
>>>> the same permission and I'm getting the same error, I'll do some further
>>>> testing tomorrow.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Anthony
>>>>
>>>> Hi Anthony,
>>>
>>> /etc/mythtv/config.xml has these perms:
>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 mythtv mythtv  455 May  2 15:16 config.xml
>>>
>>> I am still on Ubuntu 14.04.4 but did do apt-get --dist-upgrade when
>>> switching from .27 to .28.
>>> -Mark
>>>
>>>
>> Just tested and it appears to get past those original errors if you
>> create the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mythcut.conf as per the install
>> instructions in the README, so it appears the xml parsing code is the
>> problem as I've confirmed this is not a permissions problem (still getting
>> the same results with 777 permissions on the file)
>>
>> <Directory /var/www/mythcut/>
>>         DirectoryIndex index.php
>>
>>         setenv db_server        "ip-address-of-your-db-server"
>>         setenv db_name          "mythtv database name, probably
>> mythconverg"
>>         setenv db_login         "mythtv"
>>         setenv db_password      "your-super-secret-password"
>> </Directory>
>>
>> * Then reload your apache (apachectl graceful)
>>
>> looking at the differences from a 0.27 & a 0.28 config.xml they are very
>> different (as shown below) so may need to add some mythtv version checking
>> code in and parse them appropriately or alternatively rewrite to use the
>> mythtv php bindings or whatever mythweb uses
>>
>> 0.27
>> <Configuration>
>>   <UPnP>
>>     <MythFrontend>
>>       <DefaultBackend>
>>         <DBHostName>localhost</DBHostName>
>>         <DBUserName>mythtv</DBUserName>
>>         <DBPassword>PASSWORD</DBPassword>
>>         <DBName>mythconverg</DBName>
>>         <DBPort>3306</DBPort>
>>       </DefaultBackend>
>>     </MythFrontend>
>>     <UDN>
>>       <MediaRenderer>{83c101f1-70a7-4372-8eb8-4f047561f59</MediaRenderer>
>>     </UDN>
>>   </UPnP>
>> </Configuration>
>>
>> 0.28
>> <Configuration>
>>   <Database>
>>     <PingHost>1</PingHost>
>>     <Host>localhost</Host>
>>     <UserName>mythtv</UserName>
>>     <Password>PASSWORD</Password>
>>     <DatabaseName>mythconverg</DatabaseName>
>>     <Port>3306</Port>
>>   </Database>
>>   <WakeOnLAN>
>>     <Enabled>0</Enabled>
>>     <SQLReconnectWaitTime>0</SQLReconnectWaitTime>
>>     <SQLConnectRetry>5</SQLConnectRetry>
>>     <Command>echo 'WOLsqlServerCommand not set'</Command>
>>   </WakeOnLAN>
>> </Configuration>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Anthony
>>
>
> Anthony,
> I had tried that the other day and failed.  But since it worked for you I
> took another look at the mythcut.conf file and found that the path to
> mythcut was incorrect.
>
> After correcting that to <Directory /var/www/html/mythcut/> it now works!
>
> Thanks for the assistance,
> -Mark
>
> No Problems I'm going to try and add some logic to detect which version of
mythtv is running when I get some time and perhaps make it alittle more
tablet/touchscreen friendly.

I also got it working to a point on 16.04 but I also had to install
php7.0-gd but for some reason the thumbnails are still displaying blank so
I'll need to tinker some more.

Cheers,

Anthony
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