Using the Wikipedia on OpenZaurus

Alas there are currently two problems with using the results of wiki2staticz.pl on a recent version of OpenZaurus. They are, alas, the webserver and the browser.

Webserver problem

Apache: There doesn't seem to exist a apache ipk for newer versions of OpenZaurus. Also apache is a little bit heavy weight for just serving a few cgi-scripts.

thttpd: In principle a fitting light-weight server available from the standard OpenZaurus feeds. The latest version finally allows one to switch off its annoying behaviour of not following symbolic links. Alas, thttpd is downright paranoid concerning execution rights for files. It will not server any file which has exection rights switched on. If you have your wikipedia storage medium (e.g. The CF card) formatted ext2/ext3/... , then everything is OK. But if you format your card with FAT32 to be able to read it also from Windows for file-transfer etc., you have a serious problem because files on FAT32 devices have all the same execution flag (determined during mounting). Either on (to be able to access directories) or off (which is required by thttpd except that it can no longer enter the directories the files are in).
One can work around this with some magic, but I would recommend thttpd only if you also use ext2,... on your flashcard.

Tiny Java Web Server: You will need jeode java installed (from your original ROM) to run this relatively small and simple webserver. After unpacking, run it with the following script:

# /bin/sh
evm -cp
/mnt/cf/ws/wsz.jar:/opt/QtPalmtop/lib/core.jar:/mnt/cf/ws/jsdk.jar Acme.Serve.Serve -a aliases.properties -p 80 -c /cgi-bin -lar

The aliases.properties files should look like this:

from=/;dir=/mnt/cf/www
from=/cgi-bin;dir=/home/www/htdocs/cgi-bin

Browser problem

For some mysterious reason I have continuous problems with Opera under OpenZaurus. Opera 6 is quite consequent in not displaying any PNG files. Opera 7.x constantly crashes (maybe caused be the OpenZaurus developers switching off soft-floats, which are standard for the Sharp-ROMs). If you have a Zaurus newer than SL5500 you might got another browser than Opera, which maybe causes less problems. And if you use OpenZaurus in X-Windows mode, there seems to be a konqueror version you might want to try.

Other than that, hope for the next OpenZaurus version ;-)

last edit: 17.04.2005 by M. Baumeister