View your documents (pdf,xls,doc,txt,etc) on your iPhone iPod with WildEyes
Chris Eissens
The guy from DataBinge that has brought us our favorite backup solution TimeCapsule is back with WildEyes for safari.
The program let’s you view all sorts of documents right in your Safari.
The app is usefull for viewing pdf, doc, docx, xls, slsx, txt files, images, html, htm, aif, mp3, m4v, mp4 and aac files !
I think most business people really needed an app like this!
Now this is a program that i was missing on my iPhone.
Let’s have a look at version 0.08b1
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to install the app, you’ll need to install some other apps first.
1) The BSD Subsystem that everybody already has.
2) the Lighttpd daemon can be found under the network category in your installer.
Now that we have the 2 prerequisites installed, let’s go to the app itself.
3) Wildeyes is available in the Utilities category in installer.
4) Now the app is installed. First reboot your system !!
5) The main browsing directory is /private/var/mobile/Sites, but you can launch any supported files in your iPhone/iPod HOME directory.
To upload files to your iPhone, see my upload & download tutorial.
6) The app simply works by opening the folder with your files, and then double-tap the file you want to see in Safari. I’ll open an xls and a ms word file, to show you.
It’s just that easy, upload or download (if you have the download plugin for safari) your files from the web and view your files anytime anyplace.
This little app is available in the Installer.app through the Databinge packaging source, see our sources page.
Enjoy
\\ tags: document viewer, favorite backup solution, fileviewer, iPhone, ipod touch, wildeyes for safari
April 10th, 2008 at 7:30 am
Hi,
I am the author of TimeCapsule and WildEyes! Thank you for writing a tutorial on installing LightTPD before WildEyes! I have added a link to your tutorial at my site
btw, I am working alone, not a team :p
April 10th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Hi Hc,
Nice work with both apps !
If you ever need betatesters, let me know :)
April 15th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
MULTINOVA, you mention above if you have the download plugin? where can i download the plugin from? so that when I browse any site with links to these .xls files, i can view them.
thanks
April 16th, 2008 at 12:02 am
Al,
You can find the plugin under the iClarified source (see our source list) and the app is called
Safar download plugin.
April 20th, 2008 at 12:18 am
i downaload this program, and it does open my files, but when i try to open them again i get at the safari screen this 2 boxes one says download and the other change filename, and i use both options and still does not read my files the only way to open them again is to re-start my iphone, do you know what can i do about that???
April 20th, 2008 at 12:51 am
It’s probably a caching issue. can you tell me what version you are running?
April 21st, 2008 at 3:52 pm
how to you add .txt files on the iphone and view it without safari?
April 21st, 2008 at 6:14 pm
im running 1.1.3 firmware and wildeyes 0.1ob1 (i think thats the only wildeyes version)
April 21st, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Hi Pablo,
I just checked the installer and it seems that version 0.11b1 has been released. Try to upgrade and see if it adresses your problem.
IF not, come back to me and i’ll investigate it .
April 21st, 2008 at 8:48 pm
i just download the 0.11b1 version and still does not work, do you think is the firmware?? or probably the foldier i put the files on???
April 21st, 2008 at 9:12 pm
and i just noticed that this glitch only happens when i try to read .pdf, with the other files works perfectly…
April 21st, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Pablo,
I just verified with the developer, and your firmware is not the issue. WildEyes should run on all firmwares.
I’ve checked with the developer, but the box you see, download or rename ? That seems to be the safari download plugin that is interfering or most probably if you don’t have that plugin. It’s the Lighttpd daemon, try removed both and reinstalling them.
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:03 am
It worked, thanks man….
April 22nd, 2008 at 11:21 am
No problem :)
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:43 am
well, sorry to bother you again, but it seems that the glitch still there, i dont know, it worked fine yesterday but suddenly the same problem happened or i get a post that says 404 not found…im sorry to bother you but im a med-student and thats a really important tool for me when im at the hospital and fixing that problem would mean a lot to me….Thank you for your patience….
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:35 am
Pablo,
This seems to be a problem with the Lighttpd server, it seems like it stops working after you used it once.
Can you check you have the latest version of the deamon?
I would suggest removing the app, and reinstalling it.
Try to install it via Cydia this time and not from Installer.
Cydia is also a package manager like installer, but it works better with permissions and such.
Let me know the outcome :)
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Same…i just download cydia, unnnistall lighttpd and re-installed, and still the same…
April 23rd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
i have the lighttpd 1.4.17-2
April 26th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
My problem is exactly like Pablo’s.
April 27th, 2008 at 12:28 am
Hi,
I tryed to install the lighttpd app but it crashes and tells me ‘main script execution failed’. Any suggestions?
April 27th, 2008 at 12:47 am
Sulon, Pablo,
I’ve contacted the devloper but i haven’t received any upadate yet. As soon as i receive one, i’ll let you kow.
Alfatje,
Can you still install other app’s or do you have this with all apps?
April 27th, 2008 at 11:08 am
I’ve had it before, but I still can install other apps. For example: when I tried installing iBirthday (at your home), I also had a ‘main script execution failure’, but when I rebooted, I found the icon on my springboard and it works… Strange things…
April 27th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Alfatje, with the moving of your app’s it could be that you have some kind of permission problem.
To fix this you may need to connect to your iPhone via SSH and run the following commands:
chmod +s Installer.app/Installer
chown -R root:wheel Installer.app
Pm me on the forum and i’ll give my msn, so i can teach you how to.
April 27th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Multinova,
Thanks for your help. What do you mean by “pm”?
You can mail me at: ‘nam’ ‘at’ gmail
Greetz
April 27th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Ok,
should be alfatje ‘at’ gmail
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Hi author, I follow the structuon and installed needed apps to install the wildeyes.; however, my wildeyes version is 0.12b1. It’s so well, but when I try do select a file to be open there’s always a message 404 (something like that) is not found. So any solution to fix this issue?
Thanks.
May 7th, 2008 at 2:21 am
Thanks for the upgrade wildeues 0.14. It oqoeks so good.I can view all my excel, word, pictures. Thanks again to the developer.however, I can’t view my PDF file instead I’m asked to save the file. Any idea to solve this issue? I would like to view the PDF file too. Please help me put. How bout to make wildeyes be able to edit excel and word document? That would be wonderful. Thanks and please help me how to view the PDF ?
May 18th, 2008 at 2:34 am
hi,
great aps here,
just wondering if there is any application to view larger pdf files?
safari cant open large pdf say 30mb or more..
thx!
May 18th, 2008 at 2:44 am
Hi magnificent ..
you can try PDFViewer, it’s in the BigBoss repo.
You should place your pdf’s in /var/root/Media/PDF
gr,
Multinova
May 18th, 2008 at 4:02 am
hi,
thx for ur prompt reply!
i actually have pdfviewer already,
just tat it appears blank when it is launched.
i am transferring my files thru your USB method, total commander cant seem to navigate to the root folder..
any way around this?
thx!Multinova
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:50 pm
si vous pouver m”envoyer le betatesers
June 19th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
I finally found the reason why this “404 not found” was displayed (at least in my case).
When installing, the webserver default directory “Sites” is in the /var/root/ path, where as wildeyes creates a “Sites” directory, but under the /var/mobile/ path !!
so you have to connect to your phone, edit the webserver configuration file “/usr/local/etc/lighttpd.conf” and change the default webserver path.
Hope this will help !
PS. I found interesting info at http://blog.psmxy.org/pkg-info/lighttpd/
August 9th, 2009 at 1:23 am
many thanks for Shadow. The instructions really works. I reinstall lighttpd, then i edit the configuration file as Shadow advice, and it worked! Good luck
August 9th, 2009 at 1:23 am
thanks!