After all the troubles that seem to have plagued the Ubuntu One syncing service over the last few months (does the desktop to server contacts sync work yet???) I have decided to go it alone and install my own Funambol server. This “how to” is based on Raphael Schmid’s article
here, with a few observations of my own thrown in for good measure
First make sure that Java is correctly installed:
~$ sudo aptitude install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre
and then download the correct 32 or 64 bit package from the Funambol website
here.
Alternatively download the 8.5.2 release directly to the server from this website:
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I know that hiding the true URL of web pages is frowned upon. It can lead to abuse and be used for fraud. However, I really want to be able to use subdomains in WordPress for some of the more static content of this site such as the “photographs” and “recipes” sections. Normally the masking of URLs is done by using frames. The problem with this though is that the user can easily get “stuck” inside the frame.
