User:)biyibiyibiyi(/Prototyping 03

Setting up Raspian

Motivation

During the last Special Issue we all set up Raspberry pi as server, running on Diet-pi. The web server was apache2. I wanted to set up Raspian for several reasons. Sheer curiosity to see the pi's ability other than being a server, such as being a wifi-hotspot (used in Bibilotecha.info project), using pi camera for home smart agents such as surveillance and automated helpers (pet feeding, plant watering, etc).

Aside from these sporadic interests, I would continue using my pi as server. Before I wiped out Diet-pi, I tried to configure apache2's fancyindex module, so that I can make a web gallery to showcase the projects I (and xpub) did. The try out was not successful. Fancyindexing appear to only apply to specific directories and not sub-directories. Anyway! It was fun to edit the configuration file, to notice it's similarity to other markdown languages.

As I noticed the Special Issue 08 mini site is running on Nginx, I wanted to install Nginx and try again. So I decided to wipe out the Diet-pi system as I felt frustrated with Apache2 configuration.