> Ok, so this is pretty tragic, it's also amusing if you're a sick bastard > like > me, I'm sure a few of you are and will get a laugh out of it so I > thought I'd share > my story of what _not_ to do with your mythbox... > > For xmas santa claus bought me an Athlon 64 3000 to replace my refurb > emachine > mythbox. So I spend three days setting this thing up, I go out of my way to > migrate my tv from the emachine to the new amd, moving the database, setting > up all my remote controls, basically customizing the machine to my liking. > Finally I get it up and running, life is good, really good... > > I have just setup a smoothwall box with the red/green/orange interfaces, > pretty cool stuff, now what to do with all this technology??? Well, I > have the > refurb emachine laying around, I should put that on the orange interface and > set it up as my mail server/web server, what a good idea... > > So now I have a web server but nothing to put on it... How about I replicate > my mythweb interface on the web server realtime so I can see whats going on > from work.. cool... So I hack up a little cgi script that looks like so: > > #!/bin/bash > cd /var/www/localhost/htdocs > /usr/bin/wget -r http://vector/mythtv/status.php -q > cat /var/www/localhost/htdocs/cgi-responses/mythtv-status.html > > and boom, I can now see my mythtv status from outside without putting the > machine on the internet, thats pretty cool, how about what I've > recorded, that > would be even cooler! so I hack up another cgi-script, but instead of > status.php I get recorded_programs.php, should work right?? >
FWIW, I achieved this by setting up a iptables port forwarding rule on my internet facing box which forwards an incoming request on port xxxx to the mythtv box. That way I can see mythweb from anywhere else.
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