I need a local web server for some students to try building some of their own websites on. The college network is well locked down, so I'm building a local server which should work inside the college network.
I've dug out one of my very old Model A Raspberry Pi machines. It has only a 4gb SD card, so I need to install a very minimal 32-bit OS on it.
Following the instructions at https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/getting-started.html, I have installed Raspberry Pi Imager to my PC and run that, choosing to install the legacy 32-bit command line version.
Having set up the SD card, I have booted the Raspberry Pi and used ifconfig to see the IP address of the device, which on my network is 192.168.1.198.
This R-Pi is too old for the new RPi Connect software to work. But I should be able to open a command line on my PC and use SSH to connect.
First, I need to follow the instructions at https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/remote-access.html#enable-the-ssh-server to enable the SSH server.
Next, in my command prompt, I type ssh <username>@192.168.1.198. That allows me to connect to the Pi through the terminal.
Now, in the terminal,
sudo apt-get update
Now change to the etc folder - cd /etc
Install Apache
and use Nano to edit the name of the server - in this case, I'm following the instructions at https://community.element14.com/products/raspberry-pi/raspberrypi_projects/b/blog/posts/raspberry-pi-as-a-lamp-server, and the host is named lamppi
sudo nano hostname
Add a localhost entry for my IP address (e.g. 192.168.1.198 localhost)
Add an entry for my chosen server (e.g. 192.168.1.198 lamppi)
Now I restart the Apache web server with ...
sudo service apache2 restart
Now on my PC web browser, I go to 192.168.1.198, and the following displays.
