On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 03:38:15PM -0400, Rick wrote: > The Mythweb checkboxes in Scheduled Recordings no longer stick between > sessions for me. I don't know whether I've fooled up a setting somewhere > but I don't recall doing anything. The last entry in the search window > also used to stick but no longer does. Any ideas? I'm running the 0.18.1 > release on FC3.
Thanks for asking - I'd been having that issue for a long time but never bothered to investigate until now. It turns out that the issue is cookies, and both Firefox and IE are affected (and therefore I assume others would be as well). My web server is connected to the outside world and therefore has a real domain name. If I use that domain name to access MythWeb (whether from outside or via the local LAN) then the authentication and session cookies are both managed appropriately and the setting of the "duplicates" check box is maintained within and between sessions. If I access the server using the LAN hostname then the authentication cookie still works but the session cookie does not, and all of the checkboxes are reinitialized to the default (on) position every time I access the scheduled listings page. This is true even if the local hostname is explicitly added to the Firefox allow/deny cookies list, which suggests that the cookie is being choked by Apache (or php) because the site name in the cookie doesn't match the server's name. FWIW, I have noticed a message in the system startup that says "apache2: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using x.x.x.x for ServerName" (with the appropriate address inserted). I suspect the cookie problem would fix itself if I specified all of the legal server names in an apache config file somewhere.
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