RE: Password authentication to TivoWeb behind Apache proxy

["christopher purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I can't say I understand everything you are saying but ...

I host my website at home on a mac mini running apache web server. I have a
web enabled tivo (cachecard) which it proxypasses to using a method similar
to what you described and it all works.

You must enter a username/password to connect which is hosted/controlled on
the mac webserver.

If thats what you want I can let you have the conf files. If I remember
there was nothing to do to the tivo itself just a few lines extra in the
httpd.conf file and a few modules to enable.




----Original Message Follows----
From: "Bricknell, Tony" <tony.bricknell@xxxxxxx>
Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [ukha_d] Password authentication to TivoWeb behind Apache proxy
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 11:15:48 +0100

I hope someone here can offer some advice to a linux newbie.  I've spent
the
past week trawling google, apache.org, contribs.org and many other sites
but
none explain how to do what I thought was a simple task...

Tivo is on my internal network.  SME server is running a virtual domain,
tivo.mydomain.com and reverse proxying it out to the tivo box thereby
enabling remote tivoweb access (after following a web posting showing how
to
create a file and template-expand it only to find it didn't work, I found a
contrib giving a simple proxypass panel in the server-manager).  However, I
want Apache to request user/password before allowing access to Tivo.

All I've read discusses making changes to httpd.conf and putting a password
file in the root of the web site you're hosting.  But I can't do that with
TivoWeb.  And besides, it's not hosted on the SME box.

I'm sure some here have remote Tivoweb access through an Apache reverse
proxy.  But how do you ensure only authorised access?

TIA for helping me during this steep learning curve (now I know what my
father felt like when he took delivery of his first PC a year ago!)
Tony


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