[mythtv-users] Getting MythWeb authentication working

Peter A. Daly petedaly at gmail.com
Thu Jan 4 20:57:55 UTC 2007


Here's a slightly different method you may want to try:
http://www.mythpvr.com/mythtv/mythweb/secure-howto.html

-Pete

On 1/4/07, Jon Boehm <boehm100 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Look at the last post on the following link.  It worked for me on my
> Ubuntu
> Edgy Server install.  With one modification.  I would not put
> htpasswd.users
> in /var/www.  This an externally accessible directory that every one can
> read.
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/233409
>
> To bad we can't make that thread sticky.  The volume on this list is a
> little overwhelming.
>
> Good luck
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of stan
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 6:08 PM
> To: Chris Petersen
> Cc: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Getting MythWeb authentication working
>
> On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 03:26:13PM -0800, Chris Petersen wrote:
> > stan wrote:
> > > Let me clarify. When I make this chamge, I no longer have a link from
> the
> > > top level web page on the Myth backend box. Just teh one to the
> default
> > > Apache page.
> >
> > You're still not making sense.  If you get the default apache index
> > page, it just means that no index.html type page has been detected by
> > apache.  If the URL you're using *used* to show mythweb, that likely
> > means there's a configuration problem in your .htaccess file, which
> > would show up in the apache error logs if you looked there.
>
>
> OK, let's start from the begining.
>
> The system is an Ubuntu 6.10 system (which of course is Debian derived).
> Out of tthe box, if you point a web browser at it, you get a auto
> generated
> index.html page with 2 entries, one for te default Apache banner pafe, and
> one for the top level MythWeb page.
>
> In /etc/myth is a file mythweb-htaccess.conf, this is sym linked to
> /var/www/mythweb/.htaccess.dist. It contains (among other lines):
>
> # I *strongly* urge you to turn on authentication for MythWeb.  It is
> disabled
> # by default because it requires you to set up your own password file.
> Please
> # see the man page for htdigest and then configure the folowing four
> directives
> # to suit your authentication needs.
> #
> #    AuthType           Digest
> #    AuthName           "MythTV"
> #    AuthDigestFile       /var/www/htdigest
> #    Require            valid-user
> #    BrowserMatch       "MSIE"      AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack=On
> #
> #  * If you're running Apache earlier than 2.2, you will need to use
> #    AuthDigestFile instead of AuthUserFile.
>
> So, I created the following sym link:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 2007-01-01 16:19 auth_digest.load ->
> /etc/apache2/mods-available/auth_digest.load
> in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
>
> This should get the proper module loaded. Then I used htdigest to create
> user entries in  /var/www/htdigest. Then I restarted Apaceh. At this point
> in time the mythweb entry no longer appears on the index.html page.
>
> Here is the end of the Apache error log file:
>
> [Wed Jan 03 21:06:13 2007] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
> [Wed Jan 03 21:06:14 2007] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest
> authent
> ication ...
> [Wed Jan 03 21:06:14 2007] [notice] Digest: done PHP Warning:  mime_magic:
> type
> regex\t\tBEGIN[[:space:]]*[{]\tapplication/x-awk invalid in Unknown on
> line
> 0
> [Wed Jan 03 21:06:15 2007] [notice] Apache/2.0.55 (Ubuntu) PHP/4.4.2-1.1
> configu
> red -- resuming normal operations
>
> I really don't have clue why this is not working.
>
>
> --
> Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.
> (Dennis Ritchie)
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