Rudkin On Linux, Mac and Tech » virtualbox http://rudkin.me.uk Paul Rudkin's trials and tribulations with Linux, Mac and technology in general Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:07:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 My first Drobo App – webfs (a.k.a webfsd) http://rudkin.me.uk/2009/03/22/my-first-drobo-app-webfs-aka-webfsd/ http://rudkin.me.uk/2009/03/22/my-first-drobo-app-webfs-aka-webfsd/#comments Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:26:46 +0000 paul http://www.rudkin.me.uk/?p=41 Having recently acquired a DroboShare I have been experimenting with the various applications that are currently available and install. What I felt was missing from the collection was Gerd Knorr’s webfsd. This is a simple and very lightweight http server for serving static content. This would provide me with web access to the contents of my Drobo from any web browser, including Safari on my iPhone.

The question I had was how on earth do I go about doing this? Although Drobo provide an SDK with the information on how to do this, what I needed was a step by step guide to give me a push in the right direction. Fortunately I came across this blog post which takes you through the steps of compiling MediaTomb. This was exactly what I needed. I am familiar with compiling applications for my Ubuntu system, what I wasn’t familiar with was cross compiling – I didn’t know where to start!

I was a little nervous about doing all of this on my main system, so I created a virtual machine of Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 using VirtualBox. I followed the instructions to the letter up until the compilation of the libraries, I then substituted the webfsd compilation, and the result is now available for download at the DroboSpace Developer Community

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