[ale] Raspberry pi standalone hotspot/apache server - how insane?

[Charles Shapiro]

Setting a Raspi up to serve web pages is easy-peasy.  If you're just doing
static pages and cgi-bin, I'd recommend lighttpd (http://www.lighttpd.net/
) rather than Apache, just 'cause it's easier to configure and works the
silicon a little less.  I use lighttpd in my raspberry pi class and it
works great.

I dunno about a hotspot.  Calyx ( https://www.calyxinstitute.org/ ) might
be ok interesting, although coverage on the high seas would be an Issue.
In my class, I use a raspberry pi running dnsmasq (
http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html ) to provide dhcp and dns
services to a tiny local network unconnected to the internets.  I'm using
an old WRT54GL router to provide radio connectivity there. A quick scan of
the Net of a Thousand Lies shows plenty of Raspian images already
configured to provide this on more recent Pis, which have wifi built in.

-- CHS


On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 5:43 PM Pete Hardie via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> I've done similar things in the past (the hotspot part) to avoid crappy
> hotel wifi device limits.
>
> However, more recent Linuxen have changed so that I was not able to get
> the hotspot up last year
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 5:36 PM Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>> So, if one was headed out on an extended cruise, and one wanted to do a
>> couple of things:
>>
>> 1) have a standalone hotspot to allow an android phone and a Roku stick
>> to communicate so the phone could cast some learning videos to the TV.
>> (tai-chi/qigong - long cruise)
>>
>> 2) have a that hotspot also provide a rudimentary webserver, so that
>> static html pages could be served up to some number of people,
>> completely independent of the ship's Wifi.
>>
>> It looks like a raspberry pi 3 could readily do that.
>>
>> How much work to set that up?  Where might one find the best deal in
>> town on one?
>>
>> Having never worked with one,  I'm guessing that one can find a base
>> linux, and the hdmi port will drive a display, and one can stick a USB
>> keyboard and mouse on it, and then it's pretty much a small linux box?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>>
>> Neal
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