Raspberry Pi as a Web Server

Raspberry Pi as Web Server Generally Web server is a computer where the web content is stored which is used to host websites. Website is collection of web pages while web server is a software that respond to the request for web resources. There exists other web servers also such as gaming, storage, FTP, email etc. All computers that host Web sites must have Web server programs, that uses HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) to serve the files that form Web pages to users, in response to their requests, which are forwarded by their computers’ HTTP clients. Dedicated computers and appliances may be referred to as Web servers as well. Here we are going to use our Raspberry pi as a dedicated web server and our laptop as a client accessing the web server. The process is an example of the client/server model. All computers that host websites must have have web server programs. Leading Web servers include Apache (the most widely-installed Web server), Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS) and nginx (pronounced engine X) from NGNIX. Other Web servers include Novell’s NetWare server, Google Web Server (GWS) and IBM’s family of Domino servers. Here we will try installing  Apache and wordpress  in our Raspberry Pi. Components & Softwares Google these software’s and download . You can use any alternate software to do the job. Here we are not going to use any monitor , keyboard and mouse, our laptop is more than enough. Installations Let’s start from scratch . I assume you have the following components/materials mentioned above. First we are going to prepare our hard drive for our server, nothing but the memory stick. Choose a memory stick not less than 8 GB so that there won’t be any memory shortage or overloading issues. Go to this website (http://ift.tt/1Jm18Wb) and download the latest raspbian OS and unzip it. It takes some time, meanwhile download the Win32 Disk Imager which we will be using to write the raspbian.img file into the memory stick. Mac users Download Etcher to write the raspbian image into the memory stick.   The memory stick will be renamed into boot . Open the boot drive, you can see the contents of the boot, in that add a text file named “ssh” (with double quotes) not in .doc or .txt format but in all files format. Mac users create in any format and remove the format by renaming it. Note: In earlier versions of OS, SSH is enabled by default, later for security reasons it was disabled. To enable SSH we are adding that “ssh” file with whatever content in it. Booting Pi Now insert the memory stick in RPi . Power the RPi using the power adapter, your mobile phone charger holds good. Connect your  RPi with laptop via Ethernet cable . For first time booting we need ethernet cable, after that we can connect  the RPi wirelessly via Remote desktop connection(RDC) . Laptops without ethernet slot, connect your RPi to your router and login to your router to find the IP address of the RPi. Now we need to find the IP address of the RPi. After powering the RPi, the blinking of green light indicates that RPi is booted up. Ethernet lights will also blink to indicate connection establishment. Windows Users Now open Advanced IP scanner and start scanning. It will list the devices connected with your host. In that list Raspberry pi will appear. Note down the IP.   Now open the PuTTY and in Host Name provide the RPi IP and port as 22 and connection type as SSH as in the...
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