Introduction

Mozilla Weave is a plugin for Firefox (at least). It will periodically sync your data (bookmarks, history, etc.) to a server... Since the Mozilla ones filled up and aren't taking new signups, I started my own. (It's essentially just WebDAV.) I've thrown together a quick PHP frontend so I don't have to do tons of stuff by hand... Provided I have some clue who you are, and you're not going to waste all my disk space, you can use mine!

This is all very experimental. While I don't plan on taking it down or anything, I really make no guarantees, either.

Setting It Up

Backup

While I've never seen anything go wrong, it's a new technology... So I'm going to recommend doing what the Weave people recommend doing: back up your profile. (Hint: Windows users, from NT4 through Vista, visit %APPDATA%\Mozilla, though it may be in a subfolder or five.) Just copy it somewhere else.

Install Weave Plugin

You first need to download the Firefox extension. You can grab it from here, linked in the middle paragraph. (Local copy here.) Walk through the installation, but don't sign up for an account. (It won't work.)

Configure for My Server

After going through the Install, you should be in Firefox normally... Pull up the Weave Preferences (it's in Tools -> Weave -> Preferences for me) and click on the Advanced tab. (Not the one at the very top, but the row of tabs starting with "Account"). Set Server Location to weave.n1zyy.com. Move over to the Account tab, and click "Sign In..." You'll be asked for a Username, Password, and Encryption Passphrase.

Username: This is as you filled out on my signup page.
Password: This is the password you entered on the same signup page. Remember it, because it can only be reset if you get me involved..
Encryption Passphrase: Weave encrypts all of your data. You should especially remember this, because if you forget it, there's no way to decrypt your data.

The other settings are at your discretion: I have mine set up to automatically log me in and to start automatically, but there's no need to, either.

Sign In

Depending on what you did, it may sign in right away. If not, there should be a little 'band' (the Weave icon) on your status bar, which you can click on to sign on. Do that. There's also a "Sync Now" to force it to sync.

Debugging

Actually, if it didn't go well, I really have no clue... I'm new to this. ;) However, you can try accessing http://weave.n1zyy.com/user/YOUR-USERNAME-HERE, and using the username/password to see if that works. If not, you seem to have the username/password wrong. (Or something is broken?) If it does work, something else is wrong... Double-check that your server is set to weave.n1zyy.com, not the Mozilla one. (And that it's one Z, two Y's. You have no idea how often people get that wrong.)

Status Page

There's really no point, but weave.n1zyy.com/user/YOURNAME (log in with the username/password you set up) will show you how much of my webserver hard drive you're wasting (*grin*) and when you last synced. (Technically, when your history file was last updated.)