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There has always been a struggle with development for mobile devices - there has never been enough interest or collaboration to make development easy. Since Apple released the iPhone there has been a renewed interest in developing mobile applications, though most of this has been with an increasing number of web applications designed for mobile devices. Whilst coding for mobile devices is still diverging due to many different platforms and constant changes from them platforms each year, development for websites supporting mobile devices is starting to converge to a single standard - something that sites such as dev.mobi and certain W3C working groups strive for. In order to aid development there is an OpenSource project from Nokia called PAMP that runs on Symbian Series60 3rd edition handsets with a minimum of 128Mb free RAM - a few years back that would have seemed a pretty hefty requirement. So far the only handsets they've tested it on are the N95 and E61i models though there are others it should work on.

They've even gone so far as to test it on various CMS products and have confirmed it as working with CMS Made Simple, Drupal, e107, Joomla, and PHP Fusion.

Quite an amazing experience to have a pocket webserver - something that would be nice to have on a Windows Mobile device too, but so far I've not been able to find anything.

Link: Nokia PAMP Wiki

I've run article in the past to help people write their own .htaccess files for use on Apache webservers. However wouldn't it be easier if there was a way of doing most the basic stuff without having to think how to do it? Luckily there is an online .htaccess editor by Ryoken & Mannen called .htaccess Editor that can help create .htaccess files containing rules for password protecting files and/or folders, permanent redirects, custom error pages, canonisation of URLs with/without WWW, IP restrictions, and what filenames to look for as a default page.

Link: .htaccess Editor version 1.0

Apache2 for Windows can make the job of sending content as a Gzipped file a little tricky; but here is how to do it.

Securing your site is important and it is important that you stop as many forms of attack as you can. Blocking TRACE and TRACK requests are easily done, and so can stop Cross-site tracing.