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== Disabling Username/Password authentication for the Apache Web Server ==

The default setting for WDLXTV's web server is to force authentication. You may want to switch this off for various reasons, i.e. to server web pages. You can configure Apache on WDLXTV to not force authentication for particular web pages but I prefer just to switch it off for everything as I have no security issues with my setup.

== Configurating ==
The method to set this up is to overwrite the default Apache config file by over mounting an alternative using the "mount -o bind" method. The default configuration file is /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

* cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /conf/apache-default
* Edit the file /conf/apache-default, in the <Location /> section, change the following:

<Location />
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews

AuthType Digest
AuthName "WDLXTV-Webend"
AuthDigestDomain /
AuthDigestProvider file
AuthUserFile /conf/htpasswd
Require valid-user

Order allow,deny
Allow from 127.0.0.1 www.live365.com live365.com gdata.youtube.com localhost
Satisfy Any
</Location>
to:
<Location />
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Satisfy Any
</Location></nowiki>

* Create a new file /conf/S00user-script (it may already exist) putting the following into it:
#!/bin/sh
mount -o bind /conf/apache-default /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

* Reboot WDTV (sync; sync; reboot)
* And Apache should now not require a username/password.

@@ Line 31: / Line 31: @@
     Allow from all
     Satisfy Any
-  </Location></nowiki>
+  </Location>
 * Create a new file /conf/S00user-script (it may already exist) putting the following into it:

@@ Line 5: / Line 5: @@
 == Configurating ==
 The method to set this up is to overwrite the default Apache config file by over mounting an alternative using the "mount -o bind" method. The default configuration file is /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
 * cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /conf/apache-default

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 == Disabling Username/Password authentication for the Apache Web Server ==
-The default setting for WDLXTV's web server is to force authentication. You may want to switch this off for various reasons, i.e. to server web pages. You can configure Apache on WDLXTV to not force authentication for particular web pages but I prefer just to switch it off for everything as I have no security issues with my setup.
+The default setting for WDLXTV's web server is to force authentication. You may want to switch this off for various reasons, i.e. to serve web pages. You can configure Apache on WDLXTV to not force authentication for particular web pages but I prefer just to switch it off for everything as I have no security issues with my setup. IMPORTANT: this removes the security from the WDLXTV and allows anyone to reconfigure your WDLXTV.
 == Configurating ==