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Author:  mediathreat [ Fri Dec 26, 2008 9:27 pm ]
Post subject:  Error in the Video tab on MythWeb: No Symlink?

anyone ever gotten this from MythWeb going into the video tab?

Error

Could not create a symlink to /share/Movies/dvd/:/myth/video, the local MythVideo directory for this hostname (stingray). Please create a symlink to your MythVideo directory at data/video in order to use the video portions of MythWeb.


I'm using R5.5.

Author:  nqe2 [ Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:39 pm ]
Post subject:  Having the same problem

Now I'm having the same error on a fresh install of R6. Didn't have this issue on R5.5. I checked the database paths and hostname entries and they appear to be fine.

hmm....not sure where to go from here.

Author:  christ [ Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:41 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Error in the Video tab on MythWeb: No Symlink?

mediathreat wrote:
anyone ever gotten this from MythWeb going into the video tab?

yes, I have.

Did you check under:
Code:
/var/www/data

to ensure that all the paths, links, and permissions were correct?

I seem to recall I had to tweak this.

The above directory is where mythweb gets its data.

Author:  nqe2 [ Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:17 pm ]
Post subject:  Solved on R6.0

ok....had some time to look deeper into this....for some reason the symlink was missing.....needs to be from the default video directory, i.e. /myth/video to /data/srv/httpd/htdocs/mythweb/data.

the directory structure of the web server has changed in R6 and I don't have a 5.5 machine any more but I suspect if you follow the /var/www path as suggested you will find data directory you can create the symlink to there...

Author:  mjl [ Sat Feb 28, 2009 10:02 pm ]
Post subject: 

To make it easier for the new folks,

$ sudo -i
# ln -s /myth/video /data/srv/httpd/htdocs/mythweb/data
# ctrl d
$

should do the trick
Mike

Author:  christ [ Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:34 am ]
Post subject: 

mjl,
That's just for R6. OP said he was running R5.5.

Which would be:
Code:
$ su
# ln -s /myth/video /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/data/video
# ctrl d
$


You may also have to link in the covers directory as well. I can't remember if this is the stock place as I network mount all of my stuff but I use:
Code:
ln -s /myth/video/.covers /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/data/video_covers


C

Author:  mjl [ Sun Mar 01, 2009 9:46 am ]
Post subject: 

Thanks

Didn't notice the R5.5 part but it was needed in R6 for me anyway.

Mike

Author:  steeve [ Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:33 am ]
Post subject: 

christ wrote:
mjl,
That's just for R6. OP said he was running R5.5.

Which would be:
Code:
$ su
# ln -s /myth/video /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/data/video
# ctrl d
$


You may also have to link in the covers directory as well. I can't remember if this is the stock place as I network mount all of my stuff but I use:
Code:
ln -s /myth/video/.covers /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb/data/video_covers


C


This isn't working for me in R6.002. "/myth/video/.covers" is symlinked to a directory on my FreeNAS media server. MythWeb doesn't show the movie posters.

MythVideo does, but not MythWeb.

I'm not sure how to fix this.

Help?

-sTv

Author:  christ [ Sat Mar 20, 2010 11:16 am ]
Post subject: 

steeve wrote:
This isn't working for me in R6.002. "/myth/video/.covers" is symlinked to a directory on my FreeNAS media server. MythWeb doesn't show the movie posters.

MythVideo does, but not MythWeb.

I have the same issue and I am also network mounting. I had this working in R5.5 but not in 6.xx. Unfortunately I haven't had time to investigate too far as to why. I eliminated the lighttpd basedir as an issue and I think my permissions are generally ok.

My next suspicion is that I use CIFS to mount which I know has some issues with web servers for data transfer.

What are you using for network protocol?

Author:  steeve [ Sat Mar 20, 2010 12:14 pm ]
Post subject: 

christ wrote:
steeve wrote:
This isn't working for me in R6.002. "/myth/video/.covers" is symlinked to a directory on my FreeNAS media server. MythWeb doesn't show the movie posters.

MythVideo does, but not MythWeb.

I have the same issue and I am also network mounting. I had this working in R5.5 but not in 6.xx. Unfortunately I haven't had time to investigate too far as to why. I eliminated the lighttpd basedir as an issue and I think my permissions are generally ok.

My next suspicion is that I use CIFS to mount which I know has some issues with web servers for data transfer.

What are you using for network protocol?


NFS.

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