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Palm Pre hacked as Apache webserver

Looks like your webOS Pre can now serve web pages, thanks to Nebula (also recently responsible for porting MAME to the Pre). A how-to guide has been posted on PreDevWiki on turning your Pre into a webserver. By rooting your Pre and installing a few IPKs, you can configure your device under a traditional LAMP setup (Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP/Python/Perl). Cacti was used as a Network Monitoring System. And how does it perform? "It runs very well", he notes.

By following just a few steps, your Pre can also be a bonafide Linux Apache webserver. Hit up the link below for additional sceenshots and the .ipk downloads. For those desiring additional Linux functionality, a hack was previously detailed to enable the Optware Package Feed on the Pre.

PreDevWiki

Basic Instructions (Nebula promises more detailed instructions to be posted):

  1. Install the above ipk's
  2. Configure apache to load the php module, and the appropriate directory assignments (ex. /cacti/)
  3. Install cron
  4. Configure whatever LAMP application you want to use
  5. Configure cron and init scripts to run at boot time.
  6. Allow port 8000 traffic to specific interfaces. (iptables)
 

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