Comments on: Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly in Two Minutes

By: Bella Giles-Smith

Bella Giles-Smith — Sun, 21 Jul 2013 13:12:27 +0000

Thank you so much for this info. I had forgotten I used this on one of my other sites. I have just carried out your instructions from my new site, but when viewing on a Nokia phone it still isn’t quite right and don’t know how to fix it. Not all the table widths are the same, you will see my navigation (top) and navigation (bottom) and bottom table are bigger than the rest, HELP. Now please, you have a real dummy here and most of your techy instructions I would not understand, I am all self taught, hence my sites are very basic. If anyone can help, I would be most grateful as the majority of visitors seem to be viewing my site via a mobile phone. You are all amazing and don’t know what I would have done over the years without. :-)

By: MikeB

MikeB — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:43:49 +0000

I’m on Dreamhost, but as others have pointed out, specifying PHP to run as non-CGI is no longer an option. Is there a work-around? Thanx!

By: June

June — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:16:31 +0000

Hi, I have looked at the comments and am confused by your last comment- it appears to leave out some pertinent info.

“Not sure if it was mentioned, but you have to remove all the from the apphend/prepend files as they should not be there. ”

What exactly needs to be removed? It doesn’t say.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:59:59 +0000

Not sure if it was mentioned, but you have to remove all the from the apphend/prepend files as they should not be there. Should work for most people after that. To see an example, I used it on a site here: http://mobile.marianoagency.com. There is a link to the full site so you can see the difference. Of note, I added a logo to the output so there is some color on the page. I may at some point alter the code so I can add tags to the page templates which would allow me to control the mobile site content. Overall, this is a great way to go mobile without building a true mobile site.

By: John

John — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:29:11 +0000

Hi,

I have setup the code above to mirrow my site but I keep getting errors as below. Can anyone help please

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<' in /home/wsitepro/public_html/mobile/global_prepend.php on line 3

By: Zhang

Zhang — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 16:58:14 +0000

Mike,
I followed your Four-Step instruction trying to make our company site mobile friendly.But this step #4 keeps making our site disappear. I guess I just do not have the knowledge to make the correct carriage returns after copying the scripts using my browser. Is there any way to show me how to complete this step correctly? I will appreciate it so much.
Steven Zhang
ESSC Group

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 21:27:46 +0000

By: Robert Eisenstein

Robert Eisenstein — Fri, 20 May 2011 12:25:34 +0000

Daniel – great site link !
I’m dying to make this work, but my developer said that the instructions on the link you sent are basically the same as in this post, thus, it will result in the same error.
We tried this on our website after fully following the directions and when I try to use the global append and prepend directives in php.ini, I get fatal errors on the website. It’s a strange File not included error when trying to include the global appends and prepends. It appears we cannot set a path for these files via php.ini. We had it in that directory and had it all working. The global_prepend messes up the sessions that are required for using the members admin section.

Also, the thing is that with a global prepend, I cannot see any way to exclude files….?
Basically, it looks like as long as you have to use sessions, this will not work as you cannot pick and choose which files to want appended and prepended. It is a php.ini setting that applies to all files on the server.

Any suggestions?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 05 May 2011 20:42:24 +0000

I found a similar tutorial here

http://www.intac.net/how-to-make-your-site-compatible-for-cell-phones/

Why do I need to convert to .php from html fo his to work and not yours?

If i must convert to php then how do you suggest I do so?

I understand a good amount of how to use the different html css and javascript codes but have very little knowledge of php. I’d greatly appreciate any help you are willing to give.

By: Jim Newton

Jim Newton — Sun, 01 May 2011 16:51:12 +0000

Ok, I have been trying for two days to get this right. Maybe this will help some that are getting the 500 server error.

If you are getting the 500 server error place the following into your .htaccess file:

suPHP_ConfigPath /home/usr/php.ini

order allow,deny
deny from all

Then in your ROOT Directory NOT the public_html create a file name it php.ini then place the two php_values in it.

php_value auto_prepend_file /home/usr/public_html/global_prepend.php
php_value auto_append_file /home/usr/public_html/global_append.php

Replace the /usr/ with your sites user name.

At least I thought that would do it, but when I do the emulators they return a 502 (invalid gateway error) So something else must indeed be wrong.
I tried both SERVER_NAME and HTTP_HOST

Does anyone have a suggestion as to why I am getting the 502 on the phone emulators.. I really think I am close to having this.
Thanks.

By: Robert Eisenstein

Robert Eisenstein — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:33:48 +0000

Will – nice post !!
Do you also have a process like that for Blogger Blogs…and Websites in general?

Regards,
Rob

By: Will

Will — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:58:03 +0000

Here is an easy solution that works, never got Mike’s to work. http://wilcoads.com/?p=143 works! But the link I am posting does although you will have to create some mobile pages for your site. BTW I tried his several times several years ago…

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:35:40 +0000

When trying to use the .htaccess file I get this error:

[Thu Sep 23 16:24:05 2010][alert] [client 68.64.217.2] /data/20/1/2/81/1980896/user/2164097/htdocs/.htaccess: Invalid command ‘php_value’, perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration, referer: http://mobile.lohicannabisclub.com/

What is the problem?

By: Frank Huang

Frank Huang — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:36:24 +0000

Hi Sir,
I uploaded files as recommended but my site became inaccessible on my laptop – ‘Error Alert’, so I had to quickly put everything back as before.

Note: Other than the subdomain of mobile, we already have several subdomains within our directory; does it interfere?

Many thanks

By: Frank Huang

Frank Huang — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:47:26 +0000

Hi Mike(?),
In your script, is there anything I need to do to replace [‘SERVER_NAME’] with my server (GoDaddy.com), like I of course have to replace mobile.myawesomeblog.com with mobile.golfntours.com?
Many thanks