Pi as a webserver

[sorinm]

http://89.114.154.2/phpsysinfo

It`s rock solid

[jbeale]

very nice! Hopefully will remain so.

[simonlc]

What web server software are you running?

[sorinm]

apache2 with php5

[praest76]

'tis gone now. Did you just take it offline or did it get trampled into the ground by visitors to this thread?

[Jancis]

that's just what I did next day I got it

I went with nginx because it's faster with smaller footprint. last night tried to compile php-fpm, but no dice. because I like playing with it, max uptime is only 3 days so far and I plan doing something on weekend again.

http://raspi.iists.it/

[beantownTim]

http://www.timroberts.net/phpsysinfo as well.. used lighttpd.. been running strong for about 72 hours now, though i get little to no traffic haha

[sorinm]

'tis gone now. Did you just take it offline or did it get trampled into the ground by visitors to this thread?

It`s offline until I will find a better place to install the Pi. It`s so fragile.

[adlambert]

Mine is permanently in place now, with port 80 forwarding:

http://www.andrewlambert.com/phpinfo.php

[n31l]

Hi Andrew, page came up very quickly. I’m following this thread as when the Pi does arrive the main job I want it to do is act as the house link to the outside world. Looks like by the time I’m ready you lot should have sorted out most of the problems. Just need to add a few hardware inputs from alarm etc and may be a few usb cameras.

[mathewjenkinson]

Hi guys,
this looks fab
Do you know if your able to use PHP / python to talk to the GPIO pins?
For example hooking up a thermometer and outputting real time temperatures via the web server?

thanks
Mathew

[AndrewS]

Do you know if your able to use PHP / python to talk to the GPIO pins?

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/RPi.GPIO/

For example hooking up a thermometer and outputting real time temperatures via the web server?

AFAIK most temperature sensors output analogue voltages. The Raspi doesn't have any ADCs, so you'd need to use one of the http://elinux.org/RPi_Expansion_Boards

[mathewjenkinson]

Hi Andrew many thanks for the link.
If the Pi has only got digital pins Im assuming I can hook up relays? Setting the digital pin to 0 or 1 to activate a relay?
thanks
Mathew

[AndrewS]

Not directly, no. The RPi's GPIO lines don't supply enough current to drive relays, you'll need to look at one of the expansion boards...

[adlambert]

Not directly, no. The RPi's GPIO lines don't supply enough current to drive relays, you'll need to look at one of the expansion boards...

It wouldn't be a big problem to interface a GPIO pin to the base of a transistor and use that to to trigger a relay in its emittor circuit.

[AndrewS]

Heh, does "single transistor" count as the most minimal version of an "expansion board"?