Introduction
Well, the reason for this post is because there are at least 5 threads around here asking, "is verizon blocking free wap?" or "wap doesnt work for me!" I just thought I would compile a thread for everyone to clear up all the questions. Hopefully lgreenberg can sticky this for me. This thread will include:

• Using a WAP Proxy
• How To Setup Your Own WAP Gateway [Windows]
• How To Setup Your Own WAP Gateway [Linux]
• How To Setup Your Own WAP IRC Gateway

Using a WAP Proxy
Using a WAP Proxy is quite simple and you can be up and running in minutes.

Things you need:

• An IP that is running a WAP Gateway
• A WAP homepage

There are several IP's floating around these forums, one I would reccomend is 66.208.106.16 port: 9201. Everyone thinks it's blazing fast, and it's mine. :P

After you have an IP you will need to do the following:
1) Go to menu, hit 0, it should prompt you for a "Service Code" enter six 0's, you should now be in the services menu for your phone.
2) Hit 9 (WAP Settings), hit 1 (IP Settings), hit 4 (Link2-IP1).
3) Now enter 66.208.106.16 as the IP, hit okay.
4) Hit clear to return to WAP Settings
5) Hit 2 (Port Settings), hit 4 (Link2-Port1), enter 9201 in, hit okay. Now hit End.
6) Start the browser up, let it load, it will most likely give you some security error, just ignore it, hold 0 for a few second, it should now bring up browser settings.
7) Hit 6 (Advanced), hit 3 (WAP Proxy), hit 2 (WAP Proxy 2), go back to the Advanced menu.
8) Now, put your phone aside for a step, we will be setting up a WAP homepage here, go to www.tagtag.com and sign up for an account, setup a page with some nice WAP pages, like wap.movietickets.com. Now that you have your tagtag page we can continue.
9) You should still be in the Advanced menu of the browser on your phone, hit 2 (Homepage), enter in your homepage. Hit okay when done.
10) Now you should be done, to be safe, power cycle your phone.
11) Start the browser, you should be now taken to your tagtag page you setup in step 8.
Note: If you get "Error: unable to connect to server www.tagtag.com" Hold 0 and reload the page, it should work.

How To Setup Your Own WAP Gateway (Windows)
Setting up your own WAP Gateway on your personal PC is a good alternative to using some of those free ones, but it's really not as good unless you run your computer runs 24/7 and you have a broadband connection.

Things you need:

• A PC running Windows
• WAP3GX - get here

1) Install WAP3GX
2) Load wap3gx.exe
3) Setup WAP3GX to run as a service, that way it will automatically start when windows does.
4) Hit the Start button.
5) It should be running, now just get your IP address and use your IP address with the tutorial above instead of the IP provided.
Note: If you are running a firewall you will have to forward port 9201, I will not be writing up how to do that seeing as there are many routers and different ways for each one.

How to Setup Your Own WAP Gateway (Linux)
Linux is used for most web/game servers and is more reliable/stable than Windows. This guide will most likely be used by people with their own dedicated servers.

Things you need:

• A server running Red Hat or Debian
• Kannel - get here

1) Once the source is downloaded run

2) After Kannel is compiled you will need to install certain programs in a suitable place.

3) You should now be finished
Note: This is a very BRIEF tutorial on how to install, for a more detailed installation guide go here

How To Setup Your Own WAP IRC Gateway
IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat, it is a way to chat and keep in touch with family, friends and many other things. Many people would like to know how to talk on IRC from their phone, I know I wanted to, and after a bit of googling I found a nice program to allow you to do just this.

Things you need:

• A server running BSD or mostly any linux distro
• WAP IRC Gateway v.24 - get here

1) Download the sources
2) Extract the sources

3) Change to the WAP IRC directory.

4) Edit config.h for server/nickname/ident you want.
5) Compile the source

6) Move the wapirc.cgi to your cgi enabled folder, make sure it is chmodded to 755

7) Move the compiled wapircd binary to a directory not accessable by the web.
8) Run wapircd

That should run it in the background, if for some reason when you run that and the process dies when you log out of SSH or telnet, use this command.

9) Now go to the URL that the cgi is located at.

Well that is all folks, I hope it helps, if you find any typos or mistakes, feel free to PM me.

Many thanks go out to:

• Bigflavor
• The fine makers of Kannel
• The makers of WAP3Gx
• Thomas Vilda, maker of WAPIRCD

Thanks so much for the work you've put into this.
I know I appreciate it. This really should be a sticky or added to the faq.

Correction, "a sticker".

Wirelessly posted (Vx 6000: LGE-VX6000 UP.Browser/4.1.27)

Lol i sent the moderator a message asking to do it

got my own private wap server up and running in seconds!

A couple of other tips:

1. Watch out for the "Clear LinkInfo" option (3) right under the "Port Setting" option. This clears all of the WAP settings, including the default ones under Link1. There's no "Are you sure?" warning -- touch 3 and they're gone.
2. If you do accidentally clear Link1, try 199.074.153.210, port 9203.
3. Be aware that there is a security risk in operating your own open WAP gateway. Someone could use it to forward spam, or to do illegal activity. Although this would be difficult to do directly over a mobile phone, an emulator on a PC could do it. You also need to keep on top of any security fixes for the gateway software. I'm not aware of any problems at the current time, but you need to be aware of the possibility.
4. A good idea would be to use your router or the gateway software to restrict the IP range to the one your phone uses. This won't block out other phone users, but will at least keep it from the internet at large. You can find your phone's IP at http://text.dslreports.com/mspeed -- select "Your IP". Generally, you can use the first two bytes of the IP address as the filter -- so if it's 123.21.123.21, use 123.21.0.0.

Now is there a way that I can setup a tagtag like service on my webserver at home? seems easy enough, but I can't sw that will do it.

Cheers

Sticker - thanks so much for this post - I am now looking at my yahoo mail on my phone - I followed your instructions exactly and am up & running - it even seems to be bringing me to the sign in page for yahoo automatically!!! It does show "openwave" at the start of the browser though - is that OK? I just want to make sure Verizon's not going to slam me with any charges for this! (I never got a security error)!

Nope, that is absolutely normal. It still needs to open the browser even though it may be using a different server.

That's like using free internet on your computer; you would still need to open Internet Explorer to go on the web, even if your using free dial up!

Yes, but you'd need apache and some other stuff, and I really haven't messed with that, tagtag works fine for me.

thanks for the thanks chef. great tutorial.
been a while since i visited hofo. i don't know linux at all. i'll put a link to here.

peace,
matt

Hello, to all, I just want to notice, that I'm _NOT_ creator of wapircd, wapircd is created by Alan Cox, but from v0.21 I maintain this project and all wishes and bug reports must be send to me

This tutorial is really nice, thanx sticky

Great work dude....

Winksite was easy for me to set up and it's free to use for your homepage with your wap server.

www.winksite.com

So even though you click yes when it says "charges will apply. Start Mini Browser" there is none as long as you follow the steps above? Sorry about the dumb question just making sure.