[mythtv-users] safely exposing mythweb to the net.

[Brady]

Wow! Everybody loves complicated solutions!

Try this one out:

As root run this command on the firewall,

iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -i <inf> --dport 5080 -j DNAT
--to <ip address:port>

Replacing <inf> with the interface, like eth0 or eth1, of the Internet
card, and ipaddress:port with the ip address and port of the mythweb
server.

Then to get really secure you can setup a .htpassword and .htoptions
file in the mythweb's /var/www/html directory in order to require a
password to use mythweb. This helps prevent random modification of
your settings.

I use this extensively and it works great =)

It also requires much, much less overhead than running apache as a proxy.





On 9/1/05, Brett Grice <badluck_boy at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> I would also seriously consider using something like
> mod_security with apache you can find it here
> http://www.modsecurity.org.
> 
> Also lots of info on locking down apache correctly.
> 
> just my 2 cents worth
> 
> Brett.
> 
> 
> --- Marty Ravell <mythtv at rave-tech.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > This maybe a little O.T. but I'd like to open up
> > MythWeb to the net as well.
> > The issue for me however is that my Myth box sits
> > inside my Home LAN with
> > another Linux box being my Firewall. Now I do run my
> > personal website on the
> > firewall and am wondering how to go about letting
> > Myth through when there is
> > already a webserver on the machine that is the
> > gateway to the internet.
> >
> >
> >
> > Would it be possible perhaps to use the firewall's
> > Apache to talk to the
> > Myth box for MythWeb? Does the MythWeb web server
> > need to be on the same
> > machine as the MythTV installation?
> >
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> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Marty
> >
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