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Raspberry Pi By Example

By : Arush Kakkar
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Raspberry Pi By Example

By: Arush Kakkar

Overview of this book

Want to put your Raspberry Pi through its paces right out of the box? This tutorial guide is designed to get you learning all the tricks of the Raspberry Pi through building complete, hands-on hardware projects. Speed through the basics and then dive right in to development! Discover that you can do almost anything with your Raspberry Pi with a taste of almost everything. Get started with Pi Gaming as you learn how to set up Minecraft, and then program your own game with the help of Pygame. Turn the Pi into your own home security system with complete guidance on setting up a webcam spy camera and OpenCV computer vision for image recognition capabilities. Get to grips with GPIO programming to make a Pi-based glowing LED system, build a complete functioning motion tracker, and more. Finally, get ready to tackle projects that push your Pi to its limits. Construct a complete Internet of Things home automation system with the Raspberry Pi to control your house via Twitter; turn your Pi into a super-computer through linking multiple boards into a cluster and then add in advanced network capabilities for super speedy processing!
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Raspberry Pi By Example
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 13. Setting Up a Web Server on the Raspberry Pi

In the previous two chapters, we discussed the networking capabilities of the Raspberry Pi. In Chapter 11, Build Your Own Supercomputer with Raspberry Pi, we built a network of Raspberry Pi devices that were able to communicate with each other and share the computational burden, thereby significantly reducing the time required for a task to complete. In the next chapter, Chapter 12, Advanced Networking with Raspberry Pi, we learned about more advanced networking concepts such as DHCP servers, DNS systems, and so on. In addition to that, we made our own intranet with a few Pi devices.

Continuing the same theme, we will now set up a web server on a single Raspberry Pi and set up a WordPress installation on it. The web server that we will be using is Apache, as it is one of the most popular servers, and has high usage within the open source community. In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Introducing and installing Apache...