http interface 403 error

[rbarrero]

Hi there... I've just compiled VLC from Feb. 16th's nightly package and the http interface shows a "403 Forbidden" error when you go to the default http://server:8080 address. This worked previously on the 0.8.6d release, but not sure if I have to do something else to get it to work with this release, or if I picked a bad night... Help?

Thanks,

Rafael

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

manage the .hosts file

[DoubleYouSee]

"manage the .hosts file"

In what way?

I am running VLC 0.9. and the http interface. I had the interface working 10 minutes ago on 0.8.6d

I've upgraded and now I get a 403 Forbidden message if I try to use a host address other than localhost.

So if I am to understand your VERY vague reply, I need to manage my .hosts file, sounds like a hidden *nix file to me... I am having this problem on a windows installation. if I need to edit etc/hosts I will, but some clue about what address to point where would be helpful...

Cheers!

[DoubleYouSee]

Alright, so it turns out your first post shouldn't be the one where you arrogantly run your mouth... whoops :S

I've found the answer in the "Important Notes" section of http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS

Just uncomment the interface you want to use in BOTH files and then set the port on the interface line.

Cheers!

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Alright, so it turns out your first post shouldn't be the one where you arrogantly run your mouth... whoops :S

I've found the answer in the "Important Notes" section of http://www.videolan.org/developers/vlc/NEWS

Just uncomment the interface you want to use in BOTH files and then set the port on the interface line.

Cheers!

Here you go...
Reading the release notes can be usefull, sometimes.

[deadletter]

Can I get a little more information here?

On my LAN, this computer is http://10.1.10.130

To be able to access this, I need to edit the hosts to include a line that says 10.1.10.130... however I am not having success.

Entering 127.0.0.1:8080 DOES get me to the interface, 10.1.10.130:8080 does NOT.

[jeremyb]

i was having the same issue with vlc 0.9.10 on OS X 10.4. that is, i could access the http interface via 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1', but not via the machine's local ip address (192.168.2.103) or its hostname. to fix this, i enabled ipv6 link-local addresses by uncommenting the following line in the .hosts file(s):

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fe80::/64

apparently, despite the fact that i was asking for ipv4 addresses, my requests were being whizzed around via ipv6. 127.0.0.1 worked (i guess) because ::1 was enabled in the .hosts file. once i enabled the ipv6 addresses inbound, everything worked.

hth,
jeremyb

[wxl]

many thx jeremyb!!
FYI for Mac users, it's at /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts

[parker67]

many thx jeremyb!!
FYI for Mac users, it's at /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/http/.hosts

Ok the easy and secure way of doing this to allow your http access is to add your ip address with a /32 after it into the .hosts file that you have been editing. this is the safest way to do this as the way that jeremyb has suggested is opening it do all access which is a bad thing.

so in your case it would look like this

10.1.10.130/32

Just a helpful hint to you know make things more secure lol

[erikmeisel]

That works for me, but the developers complicate the things, I think they are concern about security but., that thing complicates the things, GRRR!!!!!!! an instalation of 3 minutes becomes, includes google searches, takes about 25 minutes GRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[erikmeisel]

in windows you must edit the file C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\lua\http\.hosts and uncomment or edit or add the line 192.168.1.0/24
# private addresses
#fc00::/7
#fec0::/10
#10.0.0.0/8
#172.16.0.0/12
192.168.1.0/24
#169.254.0.0/16

# The world (uncommenting these 2 lines is not quite safe)
#::/0
#0.0.0.0/0

[scorchgeek]

I was having this same problem and spent hours on it. I tried all of this. I noticed that there seemed to be a large number of .hosts files scattered around my system. Most of them appeared to be symlinked to each other, but then I found one that wasn't. Curious, I did a "sudo find / -name '.hosts" and found no fewer than 9 VLC .hosts files around my system (some undoubtedly left from the previous version, which I'd installed via the Linux Mint package manager and then uninstalled to compile the latest version).

The one that finally actually did something for me was /usr/local/share/vlc/lua/http/.hosts. Hope this helps...