Hi,

I looking for a hosting service that support wap and have php4/mysql.

PHP4 is not a must. The price I looking for is below $9. I dont need an unlimited statement on traffic. I need a recommedation.

regards,
enka

WAP is the catch. Not many hosts support it yet. The language is still pretty simple and doesn't do much, and is starting to fragment a bit due to the usual company squabbling over what standard should be adopted. There are some free hosts out there like wapdrive.com but for actual hosting you might try burlee.com I was looking into the same thing myself recently and they were the only one I found. Any others people find would be helpful as it's a rare thing right now (thinking of that whole niche' markety thing)

As it happened, we enabled WAP support for a client (just a MIME type addition). I told them that I couldn't guarantee that it would work, but they seem happy with it. If you like, drop me a note and I'll give you their site name so you can contact them and see how it's working out.

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Annette
Hosting Matters, Inc.
http://www.hostmatters.com

When you access a "web page" using a PC based browser, the "web server" tells your PC browser what kind of document it should expect. This is done by using something called MIME-types. The common MIME type for a plain HTML document is "text/html". However, for a WAP micro browser, which cannot read HTML, the MIME type has to be different.

The MIME types for serving WML contents are:


Document type MIME type Typical extension
Plain WML documents text/vnd.wap.wml .wml
Wireless Bitmap Images image/vnd.wap.wbmp .wbmp
Compiled WML documents application/vnd.wap.wmlc .wmlc
WMLScripts text/vnd.wap.wmlscript .wmls
Compiled WML Scripts application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc .wmlsc


To add the above MIME types to the Apache HTTP server, here's what you do:


Edit the srm.conf file (usually in /etc/httpd/conf)
Locate the AddType section, and add the following section to the file:
# MIME Types for WAP
AddType text/vnd.wap.wml .wml
AddType image/vnd.wap.wbmp .wbmp
AddType application/vnd.wap.wmlc .wmlc
AddType text/vnd.wap.wmlscript .wmls
AddType application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc .wmlsc

Save the file and restart the Apache HTTPd.

If you do not have control over your Apache server, for instance if you are with an ISP, it is also possible to add a file called .htaccess to each directory where you have placed WML files. When the server reads files from this directory, it will serve them according to the rules in the .htaccess file.

A typical .htaccess file will look something like this:

DirectoryIndex index.wml
addtype text/vnd.wap.wml wml
addtype application/vnd.wap.wmlc wmlc
addtype text/vnd.wap.wmlscript wmls
addtype application/vnd.wap.wmlscriptc wmlsc
addtype image/vnd.wap.wbmp wbmp


Note the first line which tells the server that the index file for this directory is called index.wml. Also note that the server must be configured to read these files. In some cases the server is configured to ignore these files for security reasons. Check with your ISP.

Thanks for the answer and explainations.

I already heard about burlee and hostmatters. But the specs/price they offer are too much for me.

What I need is about 15-20 MB space, 1,5-2 GB data transfer/month, and 5 pop3. That's enough for me. So I hope the price will be reduced.

Annette, I've heard a lot of nice comments about your service. Maybe you have a solution for me.


regards,
enka
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nk@telkom.net

All hosting companies now should have the correct MIME content type lines in their mime.conf files. Other than that, WML is just another type of content, like gifs or jpegs or anything else.

Hosting the WML part of it is the easy part. Much harder is detecting devices (WAP or browser?), reformatting images and also keeping HTML content in sync with WML content. The easiest way to handle all this is WAP (http://chiralsoftware.net/hosting.html) enabled hosting.

Holy SMOKES, ChiralSoft? You bumped up a thread that was more than three and a half years old?!?!? Oish!

:homer: DOH!!

hahaha