[mythtv-users] Mythweb via SSL on Mythbuntu 14.04, how?

[Nate Bargmann]

I've not been on this list for about seven years and in that time Myth
has just worked.  A couple of months ago I got more interested in what I
could do with the system than a simple FE/BE and now have the BE serving
to a FE on this box and a LibrElec installation running Kodi on a
Raspberry Pi fed to a remote TV.  I even have the Android remote app to
control my mail FE.  Fun stuff.  On to the reason for this message.

I posted this question on the official Mythbuntu forum about three weeks
ago, but have not yet received a reply.  I have a very straight forward
Mythbuntu 14.04 installation running Myth 0.27 and all software is from
official Mythbuntu packages.  Likewise with Apache and openSSL.

I have Apache configured for serving HTTPS on port 443 and it serves the
default Ubuntu page from /var/www/html/index.html, also user directories
are configured to be served from $HOME/public_html as
https://host/~user.  So far, so good.

Mythbuntu installs a symbolic link named mythweb under /var/www that
points to /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb.  It is this directory that I cannot
figure out how to serve via HTTPS.  It serves fine from HTTP using port
80, but I don't want to expose that port to access outside my router.  I
figure that SSL would be safer as my authentication credentials would
not be sent in clear text.

I've seen from the MythTV Wiki that an SSH tunnel could be used and that
may be the safest option since I use public key login on my machines.

TIA

- Nate

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