Comments on: An iPhone Powered Apache Web Server with PHP

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 14:34:54 +0000

To solve this simply install PHPod from Cydia and it will install lighttpd, apache and sqlite!

By: Blackfoot

Blackfoot — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:01:53 +0000

I too am looking to put the Apache and PHP on my iPod 3g but I have googled for days and can not find the file … do you remember the file name or what repository it was in so it can be added to Cydia?

Some one out there HAS to still have that file, I can manually SSH it in if I have to.

I need it so I can put the PDF of my Calculus book in the iPod and be able to refer to sections in class … the iPod is about 1,000 times lighter than my Calculus book!

By: iDude

iDude — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:35:38 +0000

This original article is very old… I’m sure things have changed greatly since I wrote it.

I still have my iphone but it is not jailbroken at the moment. Might want to keep googling around.

Good luck.

By: user

user — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:23:17 +0000

I have not got Installer.app, but Cydia and Rock on my iTouch 3.1.2
Where can i download it (what is the repo-url?)

By: iDude

iDude — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:00:12 +0000

Tienes que tener una “jail broken” iphone para poder hacer todo lo mencionado en el artículo. No he hecho esto por mucho tiempo, así que ya no contar con información actualizada sobre la manera de hacerlo.

By: aosorio

aosorio — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:37:28 +0000

Hola amigo donde puedo conseguir lo de php para el iphone, ya que los links estan rotos y solo pude conseguir el mysql gracias y le intentare ….

By: iDude

iDude — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:09:46 +0000

Nope. I did this a LONG time ago. I don’t even have a jail broken iPhone anymore. If I ever get around to doing something like this again, I may try and do a video.

Thanks for your interest.

By: John Roberts

John Roberts — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:28:51 +0000

If possible, can you do a video tutorial on this topic. Thanx.

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!