Raspberry Pi Server Essentials

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Raspberry Pi Server Essentials

By : Piotr J Kula

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Raspberry Pi Server Essentials

By: Piotr J Kula

Overview of this book

Raspberry Pi Server Essentials

Raspberry Pi Server Essentials

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

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Preface

Free Chapter

Getting Started with Raspberry Pi

Getting Started with Raspberry Pi

Hardware requirements

Extra peripherals

Installing Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi

Understanding the design of the Raspberry Pi

Preparing the Network

Preparing the Network

Local Area Network (LAN)

Wireless configuration – Wi-Fi

Static network address

Testing and benchmarking your network

Internet configuration

Configuring Extra Features

Configuring Extra Features

Updating the Raspberry Pi

Hardware watchdog

Enabling extra decoders

Hardware monitoring

Using a Fast PHP Web Server and Database

Using a Fast PHP Web Server and Database

Working with nginx

Installing a database

Nginx with custom modules

Setting Up a File Server

Setting Up a File Server

Preparing the storage medium

Accessing files

Setting Up the Game Servers

Setting Up the Game Servers

Updating to Jessie

Bitcoins – Pools and Mining

Bitcoins – Pools and Mining

Installing Bitcoind

Mining for Bitcoins

Streaming Live HD Video

Streaming Live HD Video

Streaming with GStreamer

Streaming with FFmpeg

Compiling nginx-rtmp

Watching a video

Setting Up a Media Center

Setting Up a Media Center

Watching movies

Installing RaspBMC

Index

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Summary

In this chapter, we covered the following topics:

Installing the lightweight web server called nginx
Installing and configuring PHP
Deciding which database to install and configure

In the next chapter, we will set up the Pi to store and share files.