Example of an offline web app

The app: http://psyjinx.com/iphone/

This is a very simple webapp. It displays images that iPhones and iPod Touches can use as wallpaper. There isn’t really a need for offline use with the iPhone, but the iPod Touch could benefit from it. It took me about 10 minutes to learn what to do, and implement [...]

Protecting Apache Served Directories

Surprised I haven’t written this up before now. It is very simple to do.

This assumes you are using apache on a unix based system. This should work on any OS running apache though.

In the directory you want to restrict create a file named .htaccess that contains the following:

AuthType Basic
AuthName "RESTRICTED ACCESS"
AuthUserFile /home3/speedtow/.htpasswd
Require valid-user

Note: [...]

How to setup a Mac OS X MAMP based Web Server

In the past I had a mediawiki setup on my local MBP that I would use to keep notes.  This is a copy/paste of this article.  The ToC links do not work, but the rest of the links should work.   If you need to setup MAMP on a Mac, keep on reading after the break.

Contents

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Apache Performance Tuning

This is a variety of tips complied from various places listed below. This is the notes that I took for myself while researching apache performance on several different machines. Read more to see the rest.