Brian J King brianjking

Setting up a RaspberryPi Web Server with NginX

WARNING!

I started this guide as I was building my web server but it was never finished. Nonetheless there's some valuable info for anyone starting a web server from scratch.

Steps

[download offline raspbian][0]
follow instructions for [no screen install of raspbian][1]
setup [static ip address][2], reserve in router, and update hosts file on remote computer
follow [secure web server][7], [secure ssh best practices][3], setup [ssh-copy-id in mac][4]

Bulletproof Git Workflow

start working

git checkout master
git pull
git checkout -b feature/my-work
# edit your files

Wiring up a Google Form to GitHub is not that difficult with a little bit of Apps Script automation. All you need is a Google account, a GitHub account, and a web browser...

Set up your GitHub Personal Access Token

Personal access tokens provide an easy way to interact with the GitHub API without having to mess with OAuth. If you don't already have a personal access token with repo or public_repo access, visit your GitHub settings page and generate a new token.

Be sure to copy your token some place safe and keep it secure. Once generated, you will not be able to view or copy the token again.

Set up the Form & Spreadsheet

Create a Google Form.

	#!/bin/bash

	web_service='nginx'
	config_file=$1

	le_path='/opt/letsencrypt'
	exp_limit=30;

	if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
	echo "Please specifie the path of the config file"


	WSGIPythonPath /var/www/domain.com/project

	<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
	ServerName domain.com
	ServerAlias www.domain.com
	DocumentRoot /var/www/domain.com/project/
	WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/domain.com/project/project/wsgi.py
	#WSGIPythonPath /var/www/domain.com/project

	<?php


	/*
	* function for facebook auto publishing "Events" custom post.
	*/

	session_start();
	use Facebook\FacebookSession;
	use Facebook\FacebookRedirectLoginHelper;

	# === Optimized my.cnf configuration for MySQL/MariaDB (on cPanel/WHM servers) ===
	#
	# by Fotis Evangelou, developer of Engintron (engintron.com)
	#
	# ~ Updated September 2024 ~
	#
	#
	# The settings provided below are a starting point for a 8-16 GB RAM server with 4-8 CPU cores.
	# If you have different resources available you should adjust accordingly to save CPU, RAM & disk I/O usage.
	#

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	###########################################################################
	# Originally written by: Henrik Bengtsson, 2014
	# https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/speedtest-cli-extras
	# Modified to use IFTTT by: Alasdair Allan, 2015
	# License: GPL (>= 2.1) [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html]
	###########################################################################

	# Character for separating values
	# (commas are not safe, because some servers return speeds with commas)

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# Copyright (c) 2016 Katsuya SAITO
	# This software is released under the MIT License.
	# http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
	#
	# @(#) letsencrypt_cert_autoupdate_webroot.sh ver.0.1.0 2016.01.31
	#
	# Usage:
	#

	upstream targetwebservice {
	server host2.example.com:8000 weight=1 fail_timeout=300s;
	}
	#server {
	# listen 8081;
	# server_name servername.exameple.com;
	# add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=2592000;
	# rewrite ^/.*$ https://servername.exameple.com/ permanent;
	#}
	server {