Which version of the Firefox Sync extension are you using?
1.4.x or the new 1.5 version?
I suspect the recent Firefox Sync 1.5 update is going to require a mod to the local sync server software.

My suggestion is to post in this forum, where the Sync developers sometimes answer questions.
http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla-labs-weave/topics

I've been trying to use FFHome with Sync versions from 1.3 to 1.5, it always behaved this way for me, unfortunately. Is there anybody out there who got this to work with a custom server?

The issue happens in index.php, when minimal server checks the request:

       list($version, $username, $function, $collection, $id) = explode('/', $path.'//');

       if ($version != '0.5' && $version != '1.0')
               report_problem('Function not found', 404);

A somewhat ugly (but workable hack) is to edit index.php to return your custom server's url when FFHome requests a node:

        list($version, $username, $function, $collection, $id) = explode('/', $path.'//');

      if ($version == 'user' && $collection == 'node' && $id == 'weave')
               exit('http://www.your-server-address.com/weave/');

       if ($version != '0.5' && $version != '1.0')
               report_problem('Function not found', 404);

antv, yor hack does not seems to work for me, I still get a 404. I even tried to redirect (RedirectMatch in apache conf) to the correct collection url but does not work either, even if it answer with a 200 OK ("Account not found"). Does anyone know what is the behaviour FFHome expects from the server when connecting to /user/1.0/username/node/weave ?

The hack doesn't work for me either. Though I think I found the reason for the problem in my case. I'm using a self-signed SSL certificate on my server and this is currently not supported by FF Home. Someone opened up a Bugreport before but there has been no reaction yet... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598015

Could someone have a look a that issue and please fix it? :-)

Not my case, my weave server is via HTTP (VPNd, of course).

I got it running via HTTP. I also slightly modified the weave_minimal hack to not hard-code the server URL:

   if ($version == 'user' && $collection == 'node' && $id == 'weave') {
       if (isset($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) {
           exit("https://" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . "/weave/");
       } else {
           exit("http://" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . "/weave/");
       }
   }

j.ed. solution works for me, together with latest update of FFHome.

Is this hack for the index.php of the "weave minimal server"? Where did you put it? Couldn't find a similar line to replace. Do I need to replace 'user' with my username?

That's awesome, finally my FFHome is working! My index.php somehow looked a little different, I guess that's because my weave is not the 'minimal' and uses MySQL, but still I figured out which is the right line and adopted your solution, works great! Here's my modification in index.php:

62 $path = substr($path, 1); #chop the lead slash 
63 list($username, $function, $collection, $id) = explode('/', $path . '///');
64
65 ### >>> Hack to make iPhone Firefox Home work
66
67 if ($function == 'node') {
68     if (!isset($_SERVER['HTTPS'])) {
69         exit("http://" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . "/");
70     } else {
71         exit("https://" . $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . "/");
72     }
73 }
74
75 ### <<<
76 if ($function != "info" && $function != "storage")
77     report_problem(WEAVE_ERROR_FUNCTION_NOT_SUPPORTED, 400);

I also observed in the apache logfiles, that the desktop Firefox (which works) accesses the server via the URL format

"/1.0/username/storage/..."

whereas FFHome uses

"/user/1.0/username/storage/..."

To make these requests match the ones from the desktop browser plugin I added an alias in the virtual server section of Apache:

Alias /user/1.0 /var/www/weavesync/1.0/index.php

Where I also had one existing Alias for /1.0 to that destination.

I hope this helps some of you to figure out what the problem is on your server and to finally get your bookmarks and tabs to your phone!

Best Rainer

Ouch... sorry, the index.php snipped got messed up a little. You can probably sort it, I added the line numbers from the file at the beginning of each line...

EDIT: Ok, it's sorted now...