Comments on: An iPhone Powered Apache Web Server with PHP

By: iDude

iDude — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:50:37 +0000

Dude, of course it’s not practical… It was just done to prove it was possible. hehe. And no one would know where I am because I did it through a VPN that wasn’t in any way connected with the AT&T Phone service.

More than anything, it could be useful to load mockup static HTML pages to show a website to a client or something as if it were on a “live web server”.

By: Karel Zeman

Karel Zeman — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:20:40 +0000

not to be a downer, but is it really practical? I’ve been looking at gumstix (as mentioned above) for a while. I think portable personal server for developing on the go would be cool, or even just opening the doors for you to write simple programs (html) that you could access locally, but with a live server, what if you get dugg or slashdotted, even while you’re having a phone call? and with WiFi, 3G etc why would you want an unplugged webserver in your pocket that might run out of juice at any time. Wouldn’t it make more sense to leave the serving to the server and be the client on your device?

I’m sure that with 3G you’re already carrying a homing device in your pocket, so maybe no effect in that sense. I could imagine some security issues where you may be able to be found based on your IP if someone was clever enough, or if someone sent a ton of packets to your server and DOS’d your phone..

i need to read more science fiction!

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By: Harold Fuchs

Harold Fuchs — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:24:59 +0000

Please please please tell me where you got Apache (the exact URL). I can’t find it in any of the Community sources under installer.app or under any of the repositories under Cydia. I have used Google on my PC but …

Also, if you know where I can Perl for the iTouch …

By: iDude

iDude — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:00:10 +0000

I haven’t used installer.app in a long time. I went 3G and haven’t jailbroken it yet.

From what I remember from a year or so ago was that you could add the repos right from the handset. Perhaps that has changed. Not sure.

By: dan

dan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:57:16 +0000

How do you add apache and php to repositories of install.app – I can’t seem to find it. Can I go in through SSH and do this?

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The iPhone Has Become A Web Server In Japan — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:54:33 +0000

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By: Ruben

Ruben — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:17:26 +0000

Great post, thanks for sharing.

By: bwake

bwake — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:45:30 +0000

Hi All,

novemberbrain27:
I’ve got the same problem – where the hell is Apache or PHP?, I’m using Installer 4.0b10-3 and can’t find them anywhere!

I did find and install Lighttpd however and after a lot of fu%&!^*ing around I have managed to get that working. Now if only I can get PHP & SQLite cranking!

If anybody knows how to install php onto IPhone without all the compiling stuff, or the whereabouts of PHP in Installer or Cydia, could you please let us wannabe hackers know!

YesWeCan:
I hava HTC Universal now running Windows Mobile 6.1. I agree with you wholeheartedly – I’ve have Microsoft HTTPD serving up asp pages connected to pocket access databases & PocketHPH running php pages connected to sqlite databases – been doing so for a number of years now!

Come on IPhone, pull your finger out! You have the hardware/OS to do it!, Steve Jobs, what’s with the lame Bluetooth support!

Many thanks to all you hard working developers, jailbreak app makers & 3rd party repomen!

By: YesWeCan

YesWeCan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:39:39 +0000

Just wanted to add that Pocket PC (Windows Mobile) 2002 Phones could use a Microsoft made HTTPD server software from the SDK that supported ASP server-side scripting and ADOCE database access..and that was way back in 2001, 7 years ago ;)