[maemo-users] How to replace Dummy www page on N800?

Tue Feb 20 22:58:42 EET 2007

Paul,

aah...thanks for reminding me. I had forgotten that the www server is 
NOT a part of the Nokia OS.

It turns out that I had, in fact, installed a 3rd party www server, 
known as nginx,  originated by Igor Sysoev. A version of that www server 
was packaged for the Nokia 770/800 OS's  by Santtu Lakkala who is an 
active contributor to maemo and the maemo-developers list. I have copied 
him on this response.

Here is the url to a blog entry by Santtu that provides an installer 
file fo nginx.

    http://inz.fi/blog/2007/01/26/nginx-http-server-and-install-files/

here is the url to the www site that has the generic (not Nokia 
specific) LInux .tar

    http://nginx.net/

here is the url to a www site called codemogers.com that has a wiki for 
nginx.

    http://wiki.codemongers.com/

and here is  the nginx author, Igor's, www site where he maintains the 
source and object code for nginx:

    http://sysoev.ru/en/

Since there is documentation at the wiki I will take a look there to see 
how to locate the www site file tree in the N800 instance of nginx.

I should mention that there seems to be some consideration given, the 
efficiency of nginx for static www pages, to using ngnix as a foundation 
www server for Ruby on Rails development projects. Here is the url to a 
discussion on that topic from someone who works with ROR

http://mywheel.net/blog/index.php/2007/01/26/hosting-ruby-on-rails-lighttpd-apache-mongrel-webrick-litespeed-and-ngnix/

and some commentary relating to nginx. Note in the post below that the 
poster has misspelled (i.e. reversed the i and the x) the name of the 
software, nginx. I suspect this is because people are used to the suffix 
*nix and perhaps sometimes misread it as I did when I first saw the word.

            It's all about Russia, stupid

    And then, when everyone had already settled down with a nice,
    reliable and fast solution for serving Ruby, ngnix
    <http://sysoev.ru/nginx> comes into town. ngnix
    <http://sysoev.ru/nginx> is a wholly fast web server that serves
    static files in a breeze. And also does load-balancing. Got the
    point? Serving Mongrel instances through ngnix
    <http://sysoev.ru/nginx>. ngnix <http://sysoev.ru/nginx> is chiefly
    developed by russians and English documentation is still lacking so
    if you need assistance to get started check this post
    <http://www.brainspl.at/articles/2006/08/23/nginx-my-new-favorite-front-end-for-mongrel-cluster>.

Best Regards,

John Holmblad

Acadia Secure Networks

maemo.org at bobpaul.org wrote:
> Hmm.. Mine doesn't appear to have a webserver installed by default. 
> Sure you didn't install thttpd or similar[1]?
> A good way to find what you're looking for might be to search the n800 
> for html files:
>
> in xterm
> $ sudo gainroot
> # find / | grep -i [.]html
>
> [1] http://downloads.maemo.org/product/thttpd
>
> --Paul
>
> On 2/20/07, *Acadia Secure Networks* <acadiasecurenets at aol.com 
> <mailto:acadiasecurenets at aol.com>> wrote:
>
>     Paul,
>
>     no, I am talking about the www page that gets served to a browser
>     when I connect to the N800 via the TCP/IP stack over TCP port 80.
>     Right now the www page is a simple html script as follows:
>
>         <html>
>         <head>
>         <title>Welcome to nginx!</title>
>         </head>
>         <body bgcolor="white" 
>         text="black">
>         <center><h1>Welcome to nginx!</h1></center>
>         </body>
>         </
>         html>
>           
>
>     I want to find the file directory containing this file in the
>     filesystem and replace the file with my own www site directory
>     (static pages only).
>     I eventually plan to install a more powerful www server, thttpd,
>     that has been discussed by others on this list, but for now I am
>     hoping that what is already installed in the standard N800 OS  in
>     terms of html page serving capability will be sufficient to serve
>     www pages like the one above.
>
>     Best Regards,
>
>      
>
>     John Holmblad
>
>      
>
>     Acadia Secure Networks
>
>
>      
>
>
>
>     Paul Klapperich wrote:
>>     On 2/20/07, *Acadia Secure Networks* <acadiasecurenets at aol.com
>>     <mailto:acadiasecurenets at aol.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         All,
>>
>>         I would like to replace the dummy www page (ngnix) on the N800
>>
>>
>>     Are you talking about the home screen applet?
>>
>>     --Paul 
>>
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