Mythweb with myth 0.25 [SOLVED]

Question

I'm having my first stab at setting up mythweb and having problems because of the new and Arch-specific paths, meaning I get "Object Not Found" errors when accessing "localhost/mythweb" in the browser and also "srv/httpd/mythweb/: file not found" errors in the httpd log.
I've tried to follow the Arch wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MythWeb) and also a recent forum thread on the new paths (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=141233), as well as the official INSTALL guide which comes with mythweb. All to no avail.
I DO have the Apache server running, and see a list of files (the mythweb directory) when I go to address: "localhost". I DON'T get the nice, fancy mythweb interface when I try address: "localhost/mythweb".
Any help as to what and where I need to symlink and which edits to the paths in "mythweb.conf", "httpd.conf" and "php.ini" will be appreciated!
UPDATE:
After some more fiddling it's solved - thanks to the thread above (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=141233).
My working mythweb.conf file (excluding commented lines) is as follows:
Alias /mythweb /var/lib/mythtv/mythweb
<Directory "/var/lib/mythtv/mythweb">
Options -All +FollowSymLinks +IncludesNoExec
order allow,deny
Allow from All
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/lib/mythtv/mythweb" >
<Files mythweb.*>
setenv db_server "localhost"
setenv db_name "mythconverg"
setenv db_login "mythtv"
setenv db_password "mythtv"
order Allow,Deny
Allow from All
</Files>
<Files *.php>
php_value safe_mode 0
php_value register_globals 0
php_value magic_quotes_gpc 0
php_value file_uploads 0
php_value allow_url_fopen On
php_value zlib.output_handler Off
php_value output_handler NULL
php_flag output_handler "NULL"
</Files>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /mythweb
RewriteRule ^(css|data|images|js|themes|skins|README|INSTALL|[a-z_]+\.(php|pl))(/|$) - [L]
RewriteRule ^(pl(/.*)?)$ mythweb.pl/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ mythweb.php/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ mythweb.php [QSA,L]
AllowOverride All
Options FollowSymLinks
AddType video/nuppelvideo .nuv
AddType image/x-icon .ico
<Files *.pl>
SetHandler cgi-script
Options +ExecCGI
</Files>
</Directory>
I also had to symlink the video folder to get the video portion of mythweb working (and add /var/lib/mythtv/data/video to base_dir in php.ini):
ln -s /mnt/media/video /var/lib/mythtv/mythweb/data/video
I will now set about securing it and setting it loose on the web . LOVING the power and options provided of mythweb!
Last edited by sultanoswing (2012-05-23 11:35:31)

Answer 1

I'm also trying to get mythweb working but after doing everything from post 1, 5 and 6 and then trying to start httpd I get:
[root@media ~]# systemctl status httpd.service
httpd.service - Apache Web Server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue, 2013-01-01 11:25:46 EST; 18s ago
Process: 14599 ExecStop=/usr/sbin/apachectl graceful-stop (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 14698 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/apachectl start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 13875 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
CGroup: name=systemd:/system/httpd.service
Jan 01 11:25:46 media systemd[1]: Starting Apache Web Server...
Jan 01 11:25:46 media apachectl[14698]: Syntax error on line 29 of /etc/httpd/conf/extra/mythweb.conf:
Jan 01 11:25:46 media apachectl[14698]: Invalid command '/etc/httpd/conf/extra/mythweb.conf', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
Jan 01 11:25:46 media systemd[1]: Failed to start Apache Web Server.
Jan 01 11:25:46 media systemd[1]: Unit httpd.service entered failed state
[root@media ~]#
This is the first time trying to set it up so I haven't come from a working mythweb install before. So I'm a bit stumped.
Last edited by morphjk (2013-01-01 00:26:43)