[mythtv-users] MythWeb - Can't access it from local network without the Allow from setting

Jongi jongitech at gmail.com
Sat Jan 30 23:56:35 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 18:13 -0500, greg wrote:

> I have been fighting with this today myself.. I always have problems 
> setting up Mythweb.. Here is how I got it working..I am using Ubuntu 
> 9.10 so I hope it apply s to Debian also...
> This will allow anyone on your LAN to access Mythweb,but outsiders can't 
> login unless they know your user name and password....
> 
> sudo a2enmod
> When prompted for what module you want to enable enter:
> 
> auth_digest
> Create your password directory
> sudo mkdir /etc/mythtv/mythweb-digest/passwd
> 
> 
> Create your password FILE
> sudo htdigest -c /etc/mythtv/mythweb-digest/passwd/passwords MythTV 
> (your user name)
> 
> Grant permissions to the new password file:
> 
> sudo chown www-data /etc/mythtv/mythweb-digest/passwd/passwords
> 
> sudo chgrp www-data /etc/mythtv/mythweb-digest/passwd/passwords
> sudo chmod 640 /etc/mythtv/mythweb-digest/passwd/passwords
> 
> sudo nano /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
> 
> <Directory "/var/www/mythweb">
>   Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
>   AuthType Digest
>   AuthName "MythTV"
>   AuthUserFile /etc/mythtv/mythweb-digest/passwd/passwords
>   Require valid-user
>   Order allow,deny
>   Allow from 192.168.1.
>   Satisfy any
> </Directory>
> 
> 
> sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
> 
> 
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I had already run all the other stuff. So the below was what got things
working. Thank you sir



> a2enmod
> 
> When prompted for what module you want to enable enter:
> 
> auth_digest
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