Raspberry pi4B simple webserver (HTML?)

[Exidor]

Honestly I am unsure if this is even the correct forum section. If not sorry.

 

So I decided to play around with a Raspberry pi for the first time.

My plan is simple. I want to run two things PiHole and a simple webserver.

 

So i want to ask what is the simple webserver I can run on a PI?

The goal is for the webserver to resolve QR codes on the internal network just the local WiFi.

I have a lot of jars..... with stuff like spices and tea. And it is a pain to keep track of everything in there.

So I wan to solve this by slapping QR or 2D codes on them. Scan a code get directed to a HTML page with a basic grid layout with: 

Name

Date bought         Date expire         (possibly later picture)

Plain text description

 

Button to edit.

Save Discard.

 

So what would be the most light weight simplest to deploy thing on a Pi?

I honestly have never touched arm.

And last time I did code the LAMP stack was still the dominant thing been some 7 years or so.....

[shadow_ray]

12 hours ago, Exidor said:

My plan is simple. I want to run two things PiHole and a simple webserver.

This will require some tweaking to make your app and PiHole to use the same webserver. Otherwise you wont be able to use port 80 on both, but i don't really know how this works

 

13 hours ago, Exidor said:

So i want to ask what is the simple webserver I can run on a PI?

Depends on the model i guess nginx, apache whatever you like, most of them should work just fine. PiHole uses Lighttpd.

[Exidor]

1 hour ago, shadow_ray said:

This will require some tweaking to make your app and PiHole to use the same webserver. Otherwise you wont be able to use port 80 on both, but i don't really know how this works

 

Depends on the model i guess nginx, apache whatever you like, most of them should work just fine. PiHole uses Lighttpd.

Thanks,

 

I ordered a Raspberry Pi4B

Should be here Friday.

 

Seems that at least apache has not changed much since I last used it 7 years ago

Lighttpd ok good to know will need to look into that.

[C2dan88]

If you are coding a simple PHP app you could use the builtin webserver to host your script. Rather than whole AMP stack.

https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php

 

You dont need your webserver to use port 80 to host websites. Webserver can run on a different port, you'll need to provide it in your links. ie domain.com:<port number>/path/to/page

[vorticalbox]

wheni want to serve a folder i just use docker

 

docker run --rm -it -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -v "${PWD}:/srv/data" rflathers/nginxserve

 

I actually have this as alias in my .zshrc

 

alias nginxhere='docker run --rm -it -p 80:80 -p 443:443 -v "${PWD}:/srv/data" rflathers/nginxserve'

 

 

we get https though the browser wont trust the cert

[Exidor]

1 hour ago, James Evens said:

On a pi docker should be the simplest solution:

1. pi hole

2. Apache or ngnix

3. MariaDB 

(docker compose for 2&3)

By no means efficient but everything is already available for download/as blueprint.

 

It has. 7 years ago it probably had the old config files so you definitely need to learn a lot (again).

Thank you,

 

Ah yes docker and containers never messed around with those, but always wanted to poke them might be as good of a time as any.

Should get the Raspberry delivered Friday will start messing around with it over the weekend. Sort of interested to find out if I remember anything from way back.....

This is sort of a hobby project mostly due to the lockdown driving me crazy....

Who knows maybe this will lead me to code again?