Dr Sly's Technical Ramblings - Raspberry Pi

Setting up a LAMP server (Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP)

nospam@example.com (Sylvester Rac) — Wed, 02 Dec 2015 11:54:00 +0000

Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP

Probably the most common installation of web server, at least for a Linux system, is Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Also possible on a Windows system, in which case it would be known as WAMP. I will cover setting up the former here.

I assume you already have a working Debian based Linux distribution. If not then I highly recommend Debian, or for Raspberry Pi users, Raspbian.

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Securing Raspbian

nospam@example.com (Sylvester Rac) — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 09:23:00 +0000

There are a few simple steps I consider important to securing a new Raspbian installation:

Remove the default pi user
Prevent root login
Use ssh key-pair authentication

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Remove GUI from Raspbian

nospam@example.com (Sylvester Rac) — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 12:05:00 +0000

If your Raspbian image came pre-installled with X.org and GUI components you may want to remove them to free up some space on your partition. It's quite easy to do and highlights some useful commands:

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