How do you control the server name?

[rwalker777]

I have VLC streaming working. I am able to get it from another machine on the LAN. However any stream that I try to pull from outside the network does not work, as the .VLC file has a URL containing the actual machine name of the computer running GBPVR (in this case the machine is called PVR). So when I am accessing using my dyndns.org address it doesn't stay on that name it gives back something like http://PVR:7647/. Is there an easy way to correct this? The alternative would be to setup a proxy rewrite rule in Apache and solve it that way.

Thanks,
Roy

[UncleJohnsBand]

I have VLC streaming working. I am able to get it from another machine on the LAN. However any stream that I try to pull from outside the network does not work, as the .VLC file has a URL containing the actual machine name of the computer running GBPVR (in this case the machine is called PVR). So when I am accessing using my dyndns.org address it doesn't stay on that name it gives back something like http://PVR:7647/. Is there an easy way to correct this? The alternative would be to setup a proxy rewrite rule in Apache and solve it that way.

Thanks,
Roy

Not really familiar with how Apache would handle this....normally people use the web server that runs with GBPVR and then have an external dynamic dns setup (i.e. dyndns.org) then port forward the streaming ports in your router to point to the gbpvr machine....so when you go to your_madeup_name.dyndns.org which really points to your external ip address your router will send the request to your gbpvr machine.

[rwalker777]

Not really familiar with how Apache would handle this....normally people use the web server that runs with GBPVR and then have an external dynamic dns setup (i.e. dyndns.org) then port forward the streaming ports in your router to point to the gbpvr machine....so when you go to your_madeup_name.dyndns.org which really points to your external ip address your router will send the request to your gbpvr machine.

Let's say I am somewhere besides home, I access the EWA with http://myname.dyndns.org:7647/GBPVR/. I click on stream and it provides me with the .vlc or .m3u file and launches VLC or Windows Media Player. The problem is that the link isn't in the form of http://myname.dyndns.org:7648/stream it's gives the computer name (PVR in this case), so like this http://PVR:7648/GBPVR. How do I set the remote URL so that the .vlc or .m3u file is properly set?

Thanks,
Roy

[rwalker777]

Let's say I am somewhere besides home, I access the EWA with http://myname.dyndns.org:7647/GBPVR/. I click on stream and it provides me with the .vlc or .m3u file and launches VLC or Windows Media Player. The problem is that the link isn't in the form of http://myname.dyndns.org:7648/stream it's gives the computer name (PVR in this case), so like this http://PVR:7648/GBPVR. How do I set the remote URL so that the .vlc or .m3u file is properly set?

Thanks,
Roy

Just realized my problem, I am using an Apache proxy (as I have many other Web interfaces I need to get to) to get to the GBPVR. Ie Apache proxies the traffic to the PVR machine, so the PVR machine doesn't see the URL I called it with. Gonna have to do a rewrite rule.

Roy

[rwalker777]

Just realized my problem, I am using an Apache proxy (as I have many other Web interfaces I need to get to) to get to the GBPVR. Ie Apache proxies the traffic to the PVR machine, so the PVR machine doesn't see the URL I called it with. Gonna have to do a rewrite rule.

Roy

Actually this is the Proxy.conf file I use in Apache (seems to work, the ProxyPreserveHost did the trick):

<Location />
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from All
Allow from 192.168.1.0/24
Allow from 127.0.0.1
AuthName "rwalker.dyndns.org"
AuthType Digest
# AuthType Basic
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/htpasswd
Require valid-user
Satisfy Any
</Location>

ProxyPass /gbpvr/ http://pvr:7647/gbpvr/
ProxyPassReverse /gbpvr/ http://pvr:7647/gbpvr/
ProxyPreserveHost On

[UncleJohnsBand]

Just realized my problem, I am using an Apache proxy (as I have many other Web interfaces I need to get to) to get to the GBPVR. Ie Apache proxies the traffic to the PVR machine, so the PVR machine doesn't see the URL I called it with. Gonna have to do a rewrite rule.

Roy

Yep...figured it had to be something like that since the logic in EWA and the Streaming will return whatever url is coming in.....so I knew something was changing it somewhere.