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#1 2013-10-20 20:01:49

gizzard
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Registered: 2010-08-21
Posts: 25

Mythweb PHP Error

I have mythplugins-mythweb (1:0.27-1), mythtv (1:0.27-1), apache (2.2.25-1), and php-apache (5.5.5-1) all installed on a single machine.  The mythtv backend works fine, but I cannot load the mythweb webpage.  Apache itself works fine (can load localhost) and using ?phpinfo in the html it appears php is also working fine.  I have sqmail also working fine on this machine.

If I navigate to localhost/mythweb, the directory contents of /srv/http/mythweb (symlinked to /var/lib/mythtv/mythweb as per the wiki) are displayed.  The apache access_log shows:

192.168.1.101 - - [20/Oct/2013:15:56:42 -0400] "GET /mythweb/ http/1.1" 200 4394

while error_log shows:

[Sun Oct 20 15:56:42 2013] [error] [client 192.168.1.101] File does not exist: /srv/http/favicon.ico

If I click on "mythweb.php," a blank screen appears and apache access_log shows:

192.168.1.101 - - [20/Oct/2013:15:58:03 -0400] "GET /mythweb/mythweb.php HTTP/1.1" 500 2750
192.168.1.101 - - [20/Oct/2013:15:58:03 -0400] "GET /mythweb/skin_url/menus.css HTTP/1.1" 404 1229
192.168.1.101 - - [20/Oct/2013:15:58:03 -0400] "GET /mythweb/skin_url/style.css HTTP/1.1" 404 1229
192.168.1.101 - - [20/Oct/2013:15:58:03 -0400] "GET /mythweb/skin_url/programming.css HTTP/1.1" 404 1229
192.168.1.101 - - [20/Oct/2013:15:58:03 -0400] "GET /mythweb/skin_url/header.css HTTP/1.1" 404 1229

while error_log shows:

[Sun Oct 20 15:58:03 2013] [error] [client 192.168.1.101] PHP Fatal error:  Call to a member function query_col() on a non-object in /var/lib/mythtv/mythweb/includes/utils.php on line 59, referer: http://1
92.168.1.101/mythweb/
[Sun Oct 20 15:58:03 2013] [error] [client 192.168.1.101] File does not exist: /srv/http/mythweb/skin_url, referer: http://192.168.1.101/mythweb/mythweb.php
[Sun Oct 20 15:58:03 2013] [error] [client 192.168.1.101] File does not exist: /srv/http/mythweb/skin_url, referer: http://192.168.1.101/mythweb/mythweb.php
[Sun Oct 20 15:58:03 2013] [error] [client 192.168.1.101] File does not exist: /srv/http/mythweb/skin_url, referer: http://192.168.1.101/mythweb/mythweb.php
[Sun Oct 20 15:58:03 2013] [error] [client 192.168.1.101] File does not exist: /srv/http/mythweb/skin_url, referer: http://192.168.1.101/mythweb/mythweb.php

There is no /mythweb/skin_url directory and I thought that probably somewhere in mythweb.php a variable was not being processed correctly.  So, as a workaround I created a symlink from /mythweb/skin_url to /mythweb/skins/default (where the css files referenced above are located),  Then, clicking on mythweb.php in the browser went to a blank page with blue-purple background and the File does not exist errors stopped but the PHP Fatal error persisted.

For reference, this is utils.php.  I don't know enough about PHP to figure out what the error above means.

/etc/httpd/conf/extra/mythweb.conf

#
# Apache configuration directives for MythWeb.  Please read INSTALL for setup
# requirements and troubleshooting, along with the comments in this file.
#

############################################################################
# If you intend to use authentication for MythWeb (see below), you will
# probably also want to uncomment the following rules, which disable
# authentication for MythWeb's download URLs so you can properly stream
# to media players that don't work with authenticated servers.
#
#    <LocationMatch .*/pl/stream/[0-9]+/[0-9]+>
#        Allow from all
#    </LocationMatch>
#
#    <LocationMatch .*/music/stream.php>
#        Allow from all
#    </LocationMatch>


#
# CHANGE THESE PATHS TO MATCH YOUR MYTHWEB INSTALLATION DIRECTORY!  e.g.
#
#    /var/www
#    /home/www/htdocs
#    /var/www/html/mythweb
#    /srv/www/htdocs/mythweb
#
    <Directory "/var/lib/mythtv/mythweb/data">
        Options -All +FollowSymLinks +IncludesNoExec
    </Directory>
    <Directory "/var/lib/mythtv/mythweb" >

    ############################################################################
    # 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 following four directives
    # to suit your authentication needs.
    #
    #    AuthType           Digest
    #    AuthName           "MythTV"
    #    AuthUserFile       /var/www/htdigest
    #    Require            valid-user
    #    BrowserMatch       "MSIE"      AuthDigestEnableQueryStringHack=On
    #    Order              allow,deny
    #    Satisfy            any
    #
    #  * If you're running Apache earlier than 2.2, you will need to use
    #    the AuthDigestFile command instead of AuthUserFile (3rd line above).
    #
    ############################################################################
    # Some special instructions for the MythWeb controller files
    #
        <Files mythweb.*>

        #
        # Use the following environment settings to tell MythWeb where you want it to
        # look to connect to the database, the name of the database to connect to, and
        # the authentication info to use to connect.  The defaults will usually work
        # fine unless you've changed mythtv's mysql.txt file, or are running MythWeb on
        # a different server from your main backend.  Make sure you have mod_env enabled.
        #
            setenv db_server        "localhost"
            setenv db_name          "mythconverg"
            setenv db_login         "mythtv"
            setenv db_password      "mythtv"

        #
        # By default, MythWeb uses the hostname program to look up the hostname of the
        # machine it runs on.  If this reports incorrect data, or you run MythWeb on a
        # machine without the hostname program, set this to your current hostname.
        #
        #   setenv hostname         ""
        #

        # By default, php will always search the current directory for include files,
        # but if you wish to install these directories outside of the current path
        # (eg. for security reasons), set this variable to the directory that
        # contains the directories like languages and templates.  eg.
        #
        #   setenv include_path      "/usr/share/mythweb"

        # If you want MythWeb to email php/database errors (and a backtrace) to you,
        # uncomment and set the email address below.
        #
        #   setenv error_email       "mythweb_errors@example.com"
        #

        # If your local file system is something other than UTF-8, set this variable
        # so that the music and video portions of MythWeb can provide proper links
        # to your downloadable files.
        #
        #   setenv fs_encoding       "ISO-8859-1"

        </Files>

    ############################################################################
    # The following settings relate to PHP config.
    #

        <Files *.php>

        #  These settings are intended for apache 2.x.  If your version of apache
        #  doesn't support php_value, or things like memory_limit aren't working
        #  as expected, then use these settings as examples for your own php.ini
        #  files.
#            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

        # If you have a large number of channels, you may need to increase
        # this value to prevent PHP from running out of memory during
        # searches.  The default is 64M.
            php_value memory_limit                  64M
#            php_value memory_limit                  128M
#            php_value memory_limit                  256M
#            php_value memory_limit                  512M

        # If you have a large number of channels, php may timeout creating
        # complex pages, so you will need to increase the amount of time
        # php has to create the page. The default is 30 seconds.
            php_value max_execution_time 30
#            php_value max_execution_time 60
#            php_value max_execution_time 120

        # Note: php_flag does not work in older versions of php
#            php_flag output_handler                 "NULL"

        </Files>

    ############################################################################
    # The settings below relate specifically to mod_rewrite and the rewrite
    # engine used to make the MythWeb user experience a little easier to deal
    # with by simplifying the URLs needed to access the various sections.  Do
    # not touch these settings unless you really know what you're doing..
    #

    # Turn on the rewrite engine
        RewriteEngine  on

    # If MythWeb is installed outside of the document root (eg. using Alias) then
    # you will need to set this directive to the base URL that MythWeb is visible
    # from externally.  If you do not, the web server will return 'not found'.
    #    RewriteBase    /mythweb

    # Skip out early if we've already been through rewrites,
    # or if this is a /css/, /js/ or /cache/ directory request.
        RewriteRule    ^(css|data|images|js|themes|skins|README|INSTALL|[a-z_]+\.(php|pl))(/|$)     -     [L]

    # Redirect /pl/ requests to the perl cgi handler.
        RewriteRule     ^(pl(/.*)?)$            mythweb.pl/$1               [QSA,L]

    # Redirect most of the remaining URL requests to the main mythweb script.
    # It will then handle any requests given to it.
        RewriteRule     ^(.+)$                  mythweb.php/$1              [QSA,L]

    # If you're experiencing trouble with the previous two lines in your copy of
    # apache, you could instead use something like:
    #    RewriteRule     ^(pl(/.*)?)$           mythweb.pl?PATH_INFO=/$1    [L,QSA]
    #    RewriteRule     ^(.+)$                 mythweb.php?PATH_INFO=/$1   [L,QSA]

    # Catch anything else that comes through and send it to mythweb.php with no parameters.
        RewriteRule     ^(.*)$                  mythweb.php                 [QSA,L]

    ############################################################################
    # You really shouldn't need to edit anything below this line, so please
    # don't unless you know what you're doing.
    #

    # Allow .htaccess to override whatever it wants from the server config.
        AllowOverride   All

    # Allow browsers to follow symlinks that point outside of the web document
    # tree.  This is how we access music, videos, etc.
        Options         FollowSymLinks

    # MythTV now uses the correct file suffix for mpeg files, so all .nuv files
    # should actually be NuppleVideo.  However, apache probably doesn't know what
    # those are, so we should tell it.
        AddType video/nuppelvideo   .nuv

    # Specify the MIME type for favicon.ico in case the server configuration
    # doesn't or in case the server configuration uses the IANA-approved MIME type
    # (image/vnd.microsoft.icon)--which most browsers won't recognize.
        AddType image/x-icon        .ico

    # Enable mod_deflate.  This works MUCH more reliably than PHP's built-in
    # gzip/Zlib compressors.  It is disabled here because many distros seem not
    # to enable mod_deflate by default, but I strongly recommend that you
    # enable this section.
    #
    #    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
    #    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
    #    BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
    #
    #    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
    #    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css
    #    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE application/x-javascript

    # This is helpful for mod_deflate -- it prevents proxies from changing
    # the user agent to/from this server, which can prevent compression from
    # being enabled.  It is disabled here because many distros seem not to
    # enable mod_headers by default, but I recommend that you enable it.
    #
    #    Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary

    # Set up the perl handler so we can stream properly.  Do not use mod_perl
    # because it has a tendency to hold onto child processes, which causes
    # problems if the browser closes on an in-progress stream.
    #
        <Files *.pl>
            SetHandler cgi-script
            Options +ExecCGI
        </Files>

    </Directory>

Can anyone help?

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#2 2013-11-09 14:18:20

muh3
Member
Registered: 2013-10-20
Posts: 8

Re: Mythweb PHP Error

I have the same problem.

skin_url seems to be variable containing the path/to/a/skin. But it is not correctly filled. It is a $_SESSION variable

also i have another problem. The includes/database.php file uses $_SERVER variables to establish a db connection. These variables are also not filled (and i definitely set them in the mythweb.conf)

seems mythweb has some problems with "$_"-variables, or the php implementation or apache...i don't know

using latest php (5.5) and latest apache

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