[V-Turn]

Hi,

I am not really sure I should file a bug report for this, so checking here for opinion. I have a fix available, but I might be the only person in the world doing that, so...

My PC with XBMC runs several HTTP services who have their own webserver. I made all of them accessible to the outside world through a reverse proxy in HTTPS (i.e a single host which forwards requests to one server or the other based on the URL. For example https://myproxy/xbmc/index is forwarded to /index on the xbmc server on port 8080.)

What I noticed is that the default XBMC web interface had several non-relative folders, which I had to hack to get the whole thing working. I think my changes are correct since not only the reverse proxy access works, but also the direct access.

Also, I noticed that the jsonrpc calls are hard-coded to an absolute URL "/jasonrpc" which requires a bit of "dirty work" in the reverse proxy configuration.

I can share my changes for a patch. For the "/jsonrpc" hard-coded url, I could open a bug report or document my reverse proxy configuration (as it works even if it is not clean).

Is there any interest besides myself?

V.

[jayhawk785]

Yes, Please share if you could. I am also trying to get this to work via reverse proxy.

[V-Turn]

Ok, so here is what I have (I'm running on Ubuntu, your paths may of course vary) if I remember correctly

1. Enable the proper apache modules (In my case I used proxy_http and mod_proxy)
2. allow URL revwriting/proxying in your apache file (/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/default-ssl)

Code:

    ProxyPass /xbmc/ http://localhost:8080/
    ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:8080/ /xbmc/
    ProxyPass /xbmc/jsonrpc http://localhost:8080/jsonrpc
    ProxyPassReverse http://localhost:8080/jsonrpc /xbmc/jsonrpc

3. Correct the web addon (often they use non-relative URLs). For example if you look at /usr/share/xbmc/addons/webinterface.default/index.html, you see things like (I put everything in one shot hee, but those lines are scattered all around the file)

Code:

<link rel="icon" href="[color=red]/[/color]favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="[color=red]/[/color]favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link href="[color=red]/[/color]css/core.css?1.3.57" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link href="[color=red]/[/color]css/ipad.css?1.0.5" rel="stylesheet" media="only screen and (max-device-width: 1024px)" type="text/css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="[color=red]/[/color]js/jquery-1.4.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="[color=red]/[/color]js/Launcher.js?1.0.0"></script>
<img src="[color=red]/[/color]images/ajax-loader.gif" alt="Loading please wait" id="spinner" style="display: none">

This should be all replaced with relative URLs:

Code:

<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
<link href="css/core.css?1.3.57" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link href="css/ipad.css?1.0.5" rel="stylesheet" media="only screen and (max-device-width: 1024px)" type="text/css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.4.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/Launcher.js?1.0.0"></script>
<img src="images/ajax-loader.gif" alt="Loading please wait" id="spinner" style="display: none">

This line must be edited as well in /usr/share/xbmc/addons/webinterface.default/js/Core.js
From

Code:

var JSON_RPC = '/jsonrpc';

To

Code:

var JSON_RPC = 'jsonrpc';

Let me know if that helps.

V.

[Zeron]

You should be able to make it work without changing the web interface code. ProxyHTMLURLMap in Apache can help.

[V-Turn]

You should be able to make it work without changing the web interface code. ProxyHTMLURLMap in Apache can help.

To be honest, I did not know this one, so I did not try. Even if this should prevent editing the HTML files as above, I am not sure however this will rewrite links dynamically built in Javascript (see Core.js above).

If somebody gives it a try, it would ne interesting to feedback their result in this thread.

V.

[cavej03]

You should be able to make it work without changing the web interface code. ProxyHTMLURLMap in Apache can help.

Sorry to bring up an old thread... I would really like some help achieving this as I'm trying to get a bit familiar with apache2, so far I've got sabnzbd+, sick sickbeard, and couchpotato all behind a reverse proxy I want to put xbmc behind one also but i can't seem to get it to work.

Can anyone help??

[steve1977]

Anyone knows whether this will be fixed in Frodo release? I am running Eden and the issue is still there. Also, not clear to me (even with the description above) how to fix the issue.

[Montellese]

I just pushed https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/6b20...531b0a9578 which makes all paths in the webinterface relative. I can't test if it solves the reverse proxy problem because I don't operate one but using relative paths is better anyway.

[xxxnelly]

I just pushed https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/6b20...531b0a9578 which makes all paths in the webinterface relative. I can't test if it solves the reverse proxy problem because I don't operate one but using relative paths is better anyway.

I just tried this but I needed to modify some of the js files too for /image*

MediaLibrary.js
NowPlayingManager.js

Can you update these also.

Thanks,
Neil

[Montellese]

Thanks for letting me know. Fixed in https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/a058...edaeb19c4a

[xxxnelly]

Perfect, Thanks.

[steve1977]

Thanks for letting me know. Fixed in https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/a058...edaeb19c4a

I am using the August monthly of pre-Frodo and it is still not working. Anyone has success with it?

[steve1977]

Just tried it and it is somewhat fixed. I can access web interface now over reverse proxies. Still having issues with the JSONRPC though. Please see below:

My settings:

<Location /xbmc/>
ProxyPass http://192.168.1.105:8080/
ProxyPassReverse http://192.168.1.105:8080/
</Location>

<Location /xbmc/jsonrpc>
ProxyPass http://192.168.1.105:8080/jsonrpc
ProxyPassReverse http://192.168.1.105:8080/jsonrpc
</Location>


Using this, xbmc is accessible when accessing my-URL/xbmc. When trying to access jsonrpc, I get the following message, which doesn't look bad, but is different from when accessing directly without reverse proxies:

<html><head><title>JSONRPC</title></head><body>JSONRPC active and working</body></html>