iPhone as backup web server

Using the port of lighttpd on his jailbroken iPhone, Mark Hoekstra of GEEKtechnique offers real-world proof that an iPhone can, indeed, function as a web server. He put up a static page and served 411 unique visitors during the time his server was offline for maintenance. Obviously, that's not battle-testing for a busier server, and the lack of database queries certainly aided the capacity of the tiny server, but it's definitely a fun example of the capabilities of a (hacked) iPhone.

Apache has also been ported, along with Python, vim, curl and other tools web servers can make good use of. There's a good possibility we'll see similar scenarios as time progresses, especially as the hardware capabilities of the iPhone improve. So, is that a backup web server in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

Thanks, Mike!

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Source: http://geektechnique.org/blog/845/maintentance-and-a-megalom…

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Derek Martin

Extrapolate this out a few years and we'll be able to use our GPS-enabled iphones as our *primary* web servers.

That could enable neat stuff, like viewing realtime video+audio feeds of all the people *currently* looking at your site/phone, if they have flash and an enabled webcam... and/or show you all the geo-locations of the people looking at your site.

May 05 2008 at 9:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sjakelien

WHERE THE HELL IS MYSQL?
I want IAMP!

May 05 2008 at 3:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Jukka Eklund

Hi, here is PAMP (Personal Apache MySQL PHP) for S60: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pamp. If you don't absolutely need PHP and MySQL, here is the "consumer" version as linked already: http://mymobilesite.net. (You can now also install PHP and MySQL on top of that, too. See http://blogs.s60.com/mws/2008/05/pamp_your_phone_part_2.html)

May 09 2008 at 9:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fernando

Yeah, who wants a S60 with way more server features (seriously, click the link), or more features in general when you can have a shiny iphone?

That's the target audience of the iphone after all eh?

May 05 2008 at 3:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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jules

This is news? I did this to my Touch over 4 months ago. I wrote a php page to find out stats from my itunes and iphoto library, too.

May 05 2008 at 3:33 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

EricSeale

S60 has had an AMP stack for some time.

http://mymobilesite.net/screenshots/

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mark

No one wants a lame S60 though. They do want iPhones.

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