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

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Nate,

Friday, October 21, 2016, 3:47:23 PM, you wrote:

> 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

An idea. Hard linking. Most linux flavours won't allow that for
directories, but you can hard link all files to an alternative
directory structure in /var/www/html. It is how the web installer on
Gentoo works.

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  Hika                            mailto:hikavdh at gmail.com

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