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Internet always cuts out

I'm using my Raspberry Pi to set up a simple Apache Web Server using these instructions. The problem I am having is that the Web Server will come up for a little while but then seem to just stop ...
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Discourse on a raspberry pi

I'm trying to install on my raspberry pi using the installation instruction for ubuntu: Install Discourse on Ubuntu. It went quite well until bundle install --deployment and now I'm having a hard ...
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SQLITE/PHP on Raspberry Pi

Wondering if this would be easy/possible. I know MySQL is commonly used but I want to make a sort of web server that can access the Raspberry Pi or more important an External Drive attached to it. ...
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Lighttpd and Werkzeug

I'm terrible with configuring webservers. I've set up lighttpd and python, and I put some .py files in the cgi-bin folder and all that works. Just simple stuff like printing the datetime. Then I ...
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Is it possible to host Discourse on a Raspberry PI

Any one tried to host discourse (http://www.discourse.org/) on a raspberry pi? Or is there any issue that cannot be solved on a pie? Thanks for any input.
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RPi Web Server: 403 forbidden on Apache

I have created a web server with my Pi, and everything was working fine. I got the "It works!" page so I thought "Okay, everything's working". I then decided to upload a new index.html file. After ...
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Mono + XSP: WebService example does not work

There have been questions quite similar to this one, but I could not find any solution. So excuse me for asking it again. I'm running Debian Linux and I installed Mono. Once I started the sample ...
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How can I stop Raspbmc from removing my directories at reboot?

This has happened to me multiple times, using either nginx or lighttpd as a webserver. Nginx and lighttpd create certain directories and files for logging errors and visitors. These are located in ...
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How do I make my raspberry pi webserver public?

So I finally got a web server going, except it's only available to my local network, and I'd like to make it public. I have a Dlink dir 615 as a router, my pi's IP address is 192.168.0.14 and my ...
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Create a Raspberry pi Webserver with a domain name

Hey I just set up my apache web-server using this tutorial http://www.jeremymorgan.com/tutorials/raspberry-pi/how-to-raspberry-pi-web-server/ and since I have a registered domain name (pillower.com) ...
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How to turn my Raspberry Pi into a Proxy Server?

Is there any way in which I can turn my Raspberry Pi into a proxy server? I have been learning about ways to protect yourself online (vpns, etc...) and I would like to be able to route my internet ...
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Could you write directly on an external hdd drive with owncloud reading the files?

I have a small owncloud server on Raspbian and owncloud stores all data on an external hdd drive wich is connected to the raspbeerry pi. Right now I would like to upload all my movies, music etc. to ...
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Installing PhpMyAdmin in conjunction with Nginx

I've got MySQL and Nginx installed on my raspberry pi, but I can't seem to find a guide that explains how I would install phpmyadmin with nginx on my raspberry pi, and be able to access it through ...
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Difficulties accessing my Raspberry Pi Nginx web server

I just got my Raspberry Pi a few days ago and decided it would be fun to try to make a mini-web server out of it. I started by updating the machine using "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" ...
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Is a home surveillance system possible using the RasPi?

I've been searching a while trying to find a way to have a Home Surveillance system using the RasPi, but unable to find a solution that includes all of the following. Would someone know of a solution ...
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Communicating between two Raspberry Pi's

I'm working on a project that uses two Raspberry Pi's. The idea is that I have one running at home, which stores all the files that I need to execute. I will take the other Raspberry Pi along to ...
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How to configure Django/Apache on Raspbian?

I am trying to setup my pi as a python web server. I already have Apache/PHP/MySQL running. I can't find the correct way to configure Django on Apache however. Can somebody help?
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Recommended switch for 4 raspberry pi [closed]

Hi there I'm about to purchase 4 raspberry pis as I would like to learn more about servers, networking and other such things to connect them together I know I will need a switch, do any of you ...
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Configuring the Raspberry Pi for Node.js

Reading a book on Single Page Web Applications I came to a paragraph that got me thinking: Node.js is non-blocking and event-driven. In a nutshell, this means a single Node.js instance on modest ...
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Espeak over python cgi

I am running lighttpd webserver on my raspberry pi (raspbian os). On my small website I have a form which executes a python script via cgi - this part is working okay. Now I tried to call espeak from ...
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Setting up a Ruby on Rails Server

I am thinking of buying a raspberry pi, because I want to host a personal website. I am using a UK Internet provider (Virgin Media), and I want to use my internet connection to allow access to my ...
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Using a Pi to run a graph database (Neo4j)

I am doing some research into using the Pi to host an iOS app. It seems like the Pi's performance as a normal web server is actually quite impressive (especially when compared to the control server ...
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Which language should I use to provide dynamic web content. [closed]

If I'm looking to serve dynamic content, which language is going to be the best option(fastest I guess). So I guess I'm really asking what is going to be the fastest compiler/interpreter. From what ...
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Raspcontrol at start up?

I have following scenario. I cloned Raspcontrol via git, and the repo is now located in /home/pi. Using ls, I can see the Raspcontrol folder. Inside, there's a start.sh for it to run. I decided to ...
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Samba share with no-ip on mac osx

i configured my raspy to share an usb disk on my lan. Works well... ...if i use lan address, in my lan address (smb://192.168.0.115) but i don't able to use no-ip dynamic dns url... ...
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Rasberry Pi as web server for storing and retrieving images from an external hard drive [closed]

Absolutely Rasberry Pi beginner here. Is it possible to use Rasberry Pi as web server for storing and retrieving photos from an external hard drive or will it be too slow?
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Running Jetty webserver

I just installed Jetty 6.1.18 on my raspberry pi via apt-get but I have trouble running it. It works fine when using the start.jar directly (in /usr/share/jetty) with sudo java -jar start.jar, so I ...
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256 or 512 MB for a webserver

I'm planning to buy a Raspberry Pi, a college of mine has a 256 MB left. But I don't know if 256 MB of memory can for fill the things I want to run. I want to run an Apache web server (or an other ...
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Execute Python Scripts Via Web interface

I have seen a lot of projects which claim to control the GPIO pins, but I want something a bit different, for example, to be able to blink an LED. Is there a system out there where, via a web ...
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Is running a CGI server as root too dangerous?

I've setup my Raspberry Pi with nginx and fcgiwrap as CGI. I wanted to control GPIO ports using a Python script with the Rpi.GPIO library. The problem is that in order to be able to control the ports, ...
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Apache2 subtext can't acces 000-default

I have been using Apache2 and webmin with my Raspberry Pi. After a restart and reinstallations Apache won't start. > sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart apache2: Syntax error on line 268 of ...
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What cool things are we doing with the Raspberry Pi? [closed]

I'm curious about buying and trying out the Raspberry Pi! I'm a moderately experienced linux user. Would love to hear what applications people are using the computer for at home or other, and just ...
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Playing around with servers

I want to get some hands on knowledge with linux servers (sine the last internship I applied for, required some experience with linux servers, but I had none), and I'm wondering if the RPi would give ...
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Is there a lightweight webserver that will serve dynamic content?

I'm building an image with a Nagios server. One of the problems of the raspberry pi is that the memory is quite small on the raspberry pi. So I'll be using a light weight interface based on php-apc ...
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How to get Python to work with Lighttpd?

I've got Lighttpd setup on my Raspberry Pi, but I'd like to get server-side code working now. I'm familiar with PHP, but I figure I should try Python as it's supposed to be the "go to" language for ...
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What should be done to secure Raspberry Pi?

Having tens of thousands of Raspberry Pi's connected to the internet is eventually going to capture the interest of some people who would like to do unsavory things to the little computers especially ...
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How to install lighttpd with php?

I've installed lighttpd, and it is working fine. I've tried to install php5, as it is described here but when I try the last step sudo service lighttpd force-reload I get: [FAIL] Reloading web ...
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How do I install lighttpd (lighty) on Debian “squeeze”?

How do I install lighttpd on my Raspberry Pi? I tried running sudo apt-get install lighttpd, which works fine on a regular Debian 'squeeze' installation, but on a Raspberry Pi I get the following ...
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Can I use a USB webcam?

Is it possible to use a standard USB webcam with the RPi, or is there a specific peripheral that should be used? I would like to use RPi's to stream images from webcams to the net.
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What kind of performance can I expect from using a Raspberry Pi as a webserver?

Has anyone done some web server benchmarking on their Raspi? I don't have my Raspi yet but I'm planning on using it as a web server and I'm interested to see stats for: Number of requests per ...
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Good lightweight web server framework? [closed]

Which web servers and frameworks work well on the RP? Are there tweaks which can be made to the web server config files that will make it run better given the limited RAM?