Mobile Web Server Blog - Comments

Andreas Blixt comments on "Mobile Web Server 1.4: out now!"

2008-07-01T09:24:18Z

Hello, I'd like to be able to direct a sub-domain of my domain to my mymobilesite.net site. Is this possible?

I know that I could make a page that sends a 301 or 302 HTTP message, but I'd like it to use my domain while navigating the site.

As an example, Google App Engine has support for this where a CNAME record to ghs.google.com. is made.

Jukka Eklund comments on "Mobile Web Server Challenge: vote for your favorite!"

2008-07-01T09:33:16Z

And the final results are here: http://mymobilesite.net/news/16/

Rob comments on "Mobile Web Server 1.4: out now!"

2008-07-01T10:21:01Z

Good work! Installed last night, and got my GPS location via the REST API. Would be really good to know a little more about mymobilesite.net. I notice the .com domain is taken by someone else so I'm assuming this is almost alpha software and Nokia have no firm plans for taking this forward? Fingers crossed.

Would be good to have an API for mymobilesite, so that I could discover other mobile web server? Also really interested to learn how scalable this is? how many connections can a MWS N95 take? I figure it is the network connection which is the bottle neck? Good Job.

Rob

Pablo comments on "Mobile Web Server 1.4: out now!"

2008-07-01T20:57:11Z

Update Didn´t work with python 1.4.4

My setup was:
MWS 1.3 @ drive D
python 1.4.4 @ drive C
pips @ drive C

Updated to drive D-

how can I install pips, openc and python @ drive C and MWS @ drive d?

Pablo comments on "Mobile Web Server 1.4: out now!"

2008-07-01T21:10:48Z

Drive D is E (mass storage). Sorry.

I moved the data folder. I did a clean install and works, but if I restore the old data folder (previosly upgraded to ver. 1.4) dont work.. maybe something mess the DB or config files.

Aron comments on "Mobile Web Server 1.4: out now!"

2008-07-01T22:20:20Z

Hello Jukka!

BIG congratulations to you and the Team!

It works great! What great, FANTASTIC!

Have a nice summer vacation. Maybe in August you could tell how to do the web server island mode with ad-hoc WLAN... if it is possible...

Thanks & Regards!
Aron

p.s.: I got the amazing feeling today again - after installing the server quickly and conveniently - that my E70 is REALLY a pocket computer.

You rule! :-)

Sami comments on "Mobile Web Server 1.4: out now!"

2008-07-02T11:18:09Z

JEAH !
Great to hear and see at you are working hard for NWS.
Location REST API was very unstable in my E90 in older version, it got too often NaN location...

I'm just installing new version, and hope to see great better working software.

Jukka Eklund comments on "Mobile Web Server 1.4: out now!"

2008-07-03T09:40:24Z

@Andreas: That is not possible with the beta service. You have to do some kind of re-direct.

@Rob: With the beta service we went with the domain mymobilesite.net because it seems more relevant. This is beta software and service, and quite mature as such. For future plans it depends on findings from the beta program, that you can also affect yourself by using the service and telling your friends too :)

There are no absolute numbers for the scalability on the device end, obviously it depends on device and network being used. HTTp requests are served one at a time, since HTTP server is running in single-threaded mode, so there is at least one bottle-neck.

There are no APIs for mymobilesite.net as such, you can find all of the existing APIs (including RSS feeds at http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/Mobile_Web_Server_APIs).

@Pablo: Your problem is probably caused by having the updated Python before installing MWS. Please remove all MWS, Open C/PIPS & Python packages, after that you can install MWS into the memory card (and Open C & Python will go to C always).

@Aron: Thanks, that is nice to hear :)

@Sami: 'NaN' result is coming from Nokia's SUPL server (network-based positioning) we just pass it forward. If there is stability problems with that there is nothing we can do. Also, have you updated your E90 to the latest software? MWS 1.4 can also use GPS positioning.

Scotty comments on "Time to update (Mobile Web Server 1.3 beta)"

2008-07-04T02:02:09Z

Hallo Jukka,

thank you for helping. (See your post at May 25)
I was make a backup and installed MWS new. Now it works :-))

And now, today i updatet to Version 1.4
That was easy and it works fine.

My questions to the new version i will post in the new "Mobile Web Server 1.4: out now!"-comments.

.. try my best in english :-))

Scotty comments on "Mobile Web Server 1.4: out now!"

2008-07-04T03:29:37Z

hallo Jukka,

update was very easy and MWS is working great! Thank you!

At first i try to update direkt by using my E90. On "mymobilesite.net/download" - the site that is showing by using (Informationen anzeigen) "show info" in options-Menue at the phone.
On the site are two adresses. The first to enter in the mobile device's browser has no link. Means i cant klick it to open the Link.
So i tryed to type it in and than it shows me "Downloading Mobile Web Server 1.4 beta..." but nothing happends. I dont know why.

So i used the second (klickabel) Link with my PC and installed with PC Suite.

This way is working and i test the new MWS.

At first i see, that the Prog-Symbol is moved to the standard folder "Installationen". No Problem to move it back to my own folder.
Can it be the reason that my first tryed update dont work, becouse i use a self createt folder to store the symbol for MWS?

The second i see was, that the status message for the offline page is now showing allso on ONLINE-Page. My Status message i used to tell the visitors in german language, that my page is offline and they can kontakt me to tell so i can start the server.
Now my message isnt true every time my server is online.
Is there a way to correkt that. I wish that the message will ony displayed if my site is off, so as in older version.

Next i tryed the new remotestart feature. Hey, that is great!!
That i can start the server from a PC - if the MWS-Prog is runing and server is stopped - is very nice! But thats not all. I can start the server even if the Prog dont run!
That needs to register the phonenumber and i think it works via SMS. Right?
Now is the question how pays for the sending of SMS to start the server?

How ever, to remote start the server is very helpfull and the GPSbased location feature shows my friends where i am, whitout costs for me. (yes, i start the server only if i have a wifi-connektion at home, at work ore at my friends whith flatrate. I am happy !

Rob comments on "More about the Location feature in Mobile Web Server"

2008-07-06T19:29:59Z

Jukka,

I got around to building a simple tracking application this weekend. It probably doesn't do much more that the Facebook application the MWS team has written, but it worked. Good to put theory into practice!

I have a demo website up and running here:

Mobile Phone Tracking with a Nokia N95

Unfortunately, due to the short battery lifespan of the N95, I don't have the web server and GPS switched on very often, but when all switched on it works a treat.

Rob

Jukka Eklund comments on "Mobile Web Server 1.4: out now!"

2008-07-07T08:31:17Z

Scotty: I don't know what is wrong with the download link, it works on my E90. About the status message, you are correct we have changed the meaning of offline message into more generic status message. Maybe we should have both, like you suggest.

Nokia pays the SMS costs associated with remote start feature. Thanks for your feedback!

Ralf comments on "Mobile Web Server 1.4: out now!"

2008-07-09T16:58:00Z

Good work! Like the new features!
Love the mobile theme. Is it possible to have the web server detect if a mobile phone is browser the website or a normal PC? It would be great to automatically display the mobile theme to mobile viewers and one of the others to PC viewers.

Unfortunately, I can't get the position feature to work. In the 1.3 version I did get a GPS fix, but in this version, the network based position fix does not appear to work. Keeps telling 'unknown coordinates'. Is there something special i have to do or set? Did't try the GPS fix yet, but will do so soon!

Keep up the good work!

Jukka Eklund comments on "Mobile Web Server 1.4: out now!"

2008-07-09T18:49:15Z

@Ralf: Nope, detecting the browser is not implemented. I agree it would be a nice feature, let's think about that. All you developer folks can think that as a challenge too :)

The network-based positioning doesn't always work, it depends on your location. In theory after you get a normal (A)GPS fix on your location, the network-based positioning should be able to locate you as well (provided the cell-id stays the same).

Thanks for your comments :)

telboy007 comments on "Mobile Web Server 1.4: out now!"

2008-07-14T12:02:57Z

Been playing around with this for a few days on my N95, it is great fun must be said. But a shame that you can only attach pictures to blogs taken by the phone camera and not the screenshot application I have installed. I assume this is done due to potential copyright issues if you open up the gallery for anyone to look at? Still, no biggie. :)