[TriLUG] new - old linux help

Mon Nov 28 16:23:13 EST 2016

I have a cubieboard as it helps me to connect to sata and has WiFi. I have
used it as dlna server. Open wrt has also been supported but it might need
a bit more power.

On Nov 28, 2016 4:12 PM, "Jim Ray via TriLUG" <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> LAMP on Raspberry Pi works well. Mine runs off of 5V DC 2.5A.
>
> https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/lamp-web-server-with-
> wordpress/worksheet/
>
> Build a LAMP Web Server with WordPress
> Learn to set up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack on your Raspberry
> Pi and configure it to work as a web server. You'll download and install
> WordPress and set up a basic website which you can access on any device on
> the same network as your Pi.
>
> Set up Apache Web ServerApache is a popular web server application you can
> install on the Raspberry Pi to allow it to serve web pages.
> On its own, Apache can serve HTML files over HTTP, and with additional
> modules can serve dynamic web pages using scripting languages such as PHP.
> Install Apache
>
> First install the apache2 package by typing the following command into the
> terminal:
> sudo apt-get install apache2 -y
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim
>
> Jim Ray, President
> Neuse Networks –  IT Management and Project Services
> office: 919-838-1672 cell: 984-459-0458
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TriLUG [mailto:trilug-bounces+jim=neuse.net at trilug.org] On Behalf
> Of Hank Montgomery via TriLUG
> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2016 2:58 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: [TriLUG] new - old linux help
>
> Hello TriLuggers,
>
> Back in 1990, with an MVS background,  I took a series of Unix classes up
> to and including Unix admin with BellSouth because I had just moved into
> the data center in Nashville TN and was going to be doing local support for
> a system that had a number of Unix boxes attached - however within a month
> of finishing the classes and moving into that job they developed a way to
> do 99% of the support remotely from Birmingham AL.
> Hence my only function at that time was to apply updates from tape and
> boot the systems when required by the centralized support group.  My
> primary job migrated back to MVS mainframe support and I mostly said goodby
> to Unix.
>
> Fast forward to the end of 1999 and I was now retired from Ma Bell after a
> 35 year career, and had moved to Raleigh as an IT mainframe support
> contractor just in time for an uneventful Y2K.  In 2001 I started
> supporting some web pages at http://rars.org and had to get the old Unix
> books to learn enough to get by with SSH and FTP access.  By early 2005 I
> had purchased a virtual server in California and was supporting a few other
> sites as well so I again got out the old books and relearned just Unix
> (translating to Linux) to struggle through setting up a LAMP box at home as
> a text box for developing web pages - and I joined TriLug on June 11th of
> 2005 as Member ID : 1118497228 - and still have that card in my wallet and
> follow the email threads.  I attended about half the TriLUG meetings over
> the next couple of years but never learned much more Linux, then I retired
> from contract work and started RVing.  For a few years I still had the LAMP
> box at the house and accessed it via remote FTP and SSH from the RV.  Then
> we sold the house and became Full Time RVers and while I still support
> several websites,  I no longer have a test box for development.
>
> Now I have an admittedly somewhat ambitious interest in setting up one or
> more Raspberry PI boxes running something like LAMP to provide:
> 1) a LAN for several laptops, tablets,  smartphones, and a WiFi / USB
> printer
> 2)  a web development host with PHP and MySql,
> 3) several networked storage devices,
> 4) Ability to dynamically connect the LAN to any of several WAN
> connections including air cards from 2 cell carriers and local campground
> WiFi hotspot when available.
>
> I know NOTHING about Raspberry Pi so I am looking for answers:
> A) Is if feasible to do all this on a single Raspberry Pis - or how many
> should I plan on building.
> B) What flavor(s) of O/S should I use (simple I hope).
> C) Once configured can ALL maintenance and use be done over WiFi.
>
> NOTE that  power and space, are all  limited when living in an RV - to say
> nothing of money, also factor.
>
> Any advice will be greatly appreciated,
> Hank Montomery
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