travel-diary a simple GPS application

[Risto H. Kurppa]

Thanks!

I can't promise I have time to try this or move it to the wiki before
travelling -> anyone feel free to write it there & try it out!


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On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Christian Rüb<christian.rueb at gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> > wiki page: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Travel_Diary
>>
>> Christian, well done!
>>
>> I'll be travelling on Monday and would like to integrate this somehow
>> on my wordpress blog or something. Don't have the time right now to
>> check but is the process documented somewhere (how to set up the .cgi
>> script etc etc on the server etc?). In what formats can I get the
>> reports out? Is anyone of you running this now somewhere, could you
>> please link the URL?
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> Hi Risto,
>
> how about this - I try to explain to you how to set up everything and you add
> this information to  the wiki page - this way it is written from a user's view
> what might help other users :)
>
> Get my CGI examples from here [1] and add a password file in the same directory
> but make sure it's inaccessible from web through a .htaccess file [2] and
> create a subdirectory data (this is where your diary files will be stored).
>
> On your Freerunner you have to configure the send script (it's a really easy
> shell script), to match your username/password and CGI script on your server.
>
> So what happens is:
> You execute the send script on your moko (using the button) and it will send
> your file via curl to your server. The file will be stored in data/
>
> The diary.kml file is a perl script as well that creates a kml. file (e.g. you
> can link it directly to google maps). To make it work you have to define .kml
> files as CGI in your webserver config [2].
>
> What happens if someone "downloads" the diary.kml file:
> The script is executed on your webserver and offers a real kml file for
> download. So all you need to do is use the link to your kml file somewhere.
>
> Just a note on the .htaccess file. It alows you to execute scripts in current
> directory and tells your web server to execute .kml files. Access to passwd and
> data are not allowed (to protect your data).
>
> If you need any more help or I did not express myself clearly enough just let
> me know. I hope at some point someone will understand what all this is for :)
>
> [1] http://git.senfdax.de/?p=travel-diary;a=tree;f=server_example
> [2] exmaple .htaccess:
> Options ExecCGI
> AddHandler cgi-script .kml
> RewriteRule ^passwd$ - [forbidden]
> RewriteRule ^data/.*$ - [forbidden]
>
> Cheers,
>  Christian
>
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