PHP

I already wrote about tiny tiny RSS (tt-rss) in this article.

So far, the login-mechanism of tt-rss was used. However, tt-rss also allows to use authentication mechanisms of an webserver, which allowes the usage of htAccess and htUser-Files.

Tiny Tiny RSS (aka "tt-rss") is a very nice tool if you read many rss feads from various devices. It's an alternative to Google Reader and runs on your own server. You only need a database (MySQL or Postgres) and PHP.

One of its features is a mobile view. This allows you to read news from you mobile phone. You just have to append /mobile to your url on your iWhatever (iPhone, iPad, iPod), or /mobile/classic on other mobile browsers.

A few hacks help to make the easier-to-read™ iPhone view available to other browsers. I tested it with Opera Mobile.

DokuWiki is a very simple, PHP based wiki. It's strengh is simplicity. It uses txt files for storage and runs on nearly every Webserver which supports PHP, no database needed.

DokuWiki supports Users and ACLs, so it's possible to allow editing only to a special group of people. DokuWiki supports many authentication backends, but the default plugins all assume that the wiki has a "login" button. In my case, the users are already authenticated via htAccess. So I started to search a solution which integrates these users.