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Author:  elgordo123 [ Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:41 pm ]
Post subject:  cell phones and mythweb wap/wml
I used to be able to use my cell phone to schedule recordings in previous versions of mythweb. It doesn't work anymore and is a known problem. I tried to follow posts on mythtv-users, editing init.php and mobile.php, but nothing worked. I couldn't fix it, but I made a nice work around.
I created a second mythweb directory called mythwap. I forced the skin/theme to use wap rather than full size default and created an entry on the initial index.html page.

As root:

cp -R /usr/share/mythtv/mythweb /usr/share/mythtv/mythwap
chmod -R a+rw /usr/share/mythtv/mythwap (A little much but so what)
ln -s /usr/share/mythtv/mythwap /var/www/mythwap
cd /var/www/mythwap/modules/_shared/tmpl
mv default default-orig
ln -s wap default (creates a symlink so it thinks wap is the default skin)
nano /var/www/index.html and after
<dif style="text-align: left;"><big><br>
<br>
add this:
<a href="mythwap/mythweb.php">MythWap</a>:<br>
<br>

Save and test from your mobile phone. Works great on older PPC's too.

One more thing: If you want to run your own wap gateway or want to have your own customizable web page of links for your cell phone you can create a file called findurl.php in /var/www. Mine includes a url entry window along with my own links. You will also want to add another entry in index.html as before, except it will look like:
<a href="findurl.php">Cell links</a><br>

My findurl.php file: (The URL entry part how-to was very hard to find)

<?php
if(isset($_POST['Submit'])){
$base = "http://";
$url = $base . $_POST['url'];
$file = @fopen($url,"r");

if($file){
header("Location: $url");
}
else{
$err = "$url URL does not exist";
}
}

?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Cell Links</title>
</head>
<body>

<?php
if(isset($err)){
echo $err;
}
?>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="">
<label>
<input type="text" name="url" />
</label>
<label>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" />
</label>
</form>

<br><a href="http://www.google.com/pda">Google</a><br>
<a href="http://m.gmail.com">Gmail</a><br>
<a href="http://mobile.srh.weather.gov">Ntl Wthr Serv</a><br>
<a href="http://www.yahoo.com">Yahoo</a><br>

</body>
</html>
Author:  thornsoft [ Thu Jan 18, 2007 5:59 pm ]
Post subject: 
Great - I will try this.
I may also hack a little and get a better page showing the upcoming schedule, with a lot less verbage/garbage than it has now.
Author:  tzoom84 [ Thu Jul 05, 2007 3:02 pm ]
Post subject: 
Bringing up an old thread here but I just trieid this verbatim and I am now getting the following error when I click on that MythWap Link:


Database Setup Error

The database environment variables are not correctly set in the
included .htaccess file. Please read through the comments included
in the file and set up the db_* environment variables correctly.

Some possible solutions are to make sure that mod_env is enabled
in httpd.conf, as well as having followed the instructions in the
README about the AllowOverride settings.



Any ideas?
I have httpd.confs in the following folders:
./etc/apache2/httpd.conf
./usr/share/apache/default-configs/apache/httpd.conf
./usr/share/apache/default-configs/apache-perl/httpd.conf
./usr/share/apache/default-configs/apache-ssl/httpd.conf

I assumed it is the /etc/apache2 one, but that is empty. Hmm.
Author:  elgordo123 [ Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:28 pm ]
Post subject: 
try doing this also:
cd to /etc/apache2/site-enabled
cp mythwebdir mythwapdir
edit mythwapdir and change path to /var/www/mythwap
restart apache2, /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

(if that doesnt work then change to basicAuth type of security)
Author:  tzoom84 [ Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:45 am ]
Post subject: 
Thanks! It worked out.
Although mythwebdir in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled was a symlink to mythwebdir in /etc/apache2/sites-available.
So I just copied/adjusted that one and created a new symlink in /etc/apache2/site-enabled. Worked great.

I noticed that the wap directory created in this workaround only had css.php, footer.php, header.php, and welcome.php. The listings page is still currently big for a cell phone screen. So I'll adjust the mythwap directory to clean up the display.

It also looks like /etc/mythtv/mythweb-config.php has switch-cases for the template type (tmpl). So I'll see if can somehow force the mythwap directory into the 'wap' template so that adjusting the display is easier.

Thanks again!
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