How to Turn Raspberry Pi Into Web Server

You can use google cloud or Amazon Aws to host your script but if you like building things this project for you.

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After your personal web server is complete, you can use it to host a custom HTML or PHP resume, or a WordPress site on your Raspberry pi

• Description
• How To
• Run Wordpress on Raspberry pi
• Run PHP or Html script on Raspberry pi

How To

Run WordPress on Raspberry pi

Installation

• Install Apache

sudo apt-get install apache2 -y

• Install PHP

sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php -y

• Install MariaDB

sudo apt-get install mariadb-server php-mysql -y 
    sudo service apache2 restart

• Download WordPress

Change directory to /var/www/html/ and delete all the files in the folder.

cd /var/www/html/
sudo rm *

Download WordPress using wget.

sudo wget http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz

Extract, Move, remove tarball

sudo tar xzf latest.tar.gz
sudo mv wordpress/* .
sudo rm -rf wordpress latest.tar.gz

change the ownership of all these files to the Apache user:

sudo chown -R www-data: .

Set up WordPress Database

• Set up MySQL/MariaDB

sudo mysql_secure_installation

• Create the WordPress database

sudo mysql -uroot -p
create database wordpress;

If this has been successful, you should see this: Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

Now grant database privileges to the root user. Note: you will need to enter your own password after IDENTIFIED BY.

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* TO 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'ENTER-YOUR-PASSWORD';

For the changes to take effect, you will need to flush the database privileges after that exit Ctrl + D. and then reboot

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

WordPress configuration

http://localhost

keep it like this

Database Name:      wordpress
User Name:          root
Password:           <YOUR PASSWORD>
Database Host:      localhost
Table Prefix:       wp_

Click Submit to proceed.

Click the Run the install button.

Run PHP or Html script on Raspberry pi

• Install Apache

sudo apt-get install apache2 -y

• Install PHP

sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php -y

Test the webserver

http://localhost/ or http://Enter your ip address

you will see a default web page is just an HTML file on the filesystem. It is located at /var/www/html/index.html

Navigate to this directory, remove the file and create a new PHP file

cd /var/www/html
sudo rm index.html
sudo nano index.php

paste and click Ctrl+ O

<?php echo "hello world"; ?>

Any doubts feel free to ask, help you to set up your own web server on raspberry pi.