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Raspberry Pi as a toy web server

1. Tell my router to route certain traffic to the Raspberry Pi. For example, I route HTTP and SSH traffic to one of my Pi’s. I disabled password login for  SSH, using public key authentication instead: in /etc/ssh/sshd_config, use the following setting and restart SSH service using `sudo service ssh restart’.

2. Getting my IP address of the Raspberry Pi. I firstly created a PHP script on my domain to record the IP address in a text file.

Then tell the Raspberry Pi to report its IP address every 5 minutes, using crontab:

After a while the IP address is recorded in the text file and updated every 5 minutes.

3. Optionally create a DNS record for the Pi. I use Cloudflare to manage DNS settings by myself, so just add/update an entry in Cloudflare’s settings. I point pi.daoyuan.li to the IP address of one Pi. This can be done automatically in the future.

4. Install Flask on the Pi.

5. Install nginx and uwsgi on the Pi.

6. Set up nginx along with uwsgi and Flask.

Edit nginx config:

Edit uwsgi config:

Create a simple Flask app:

Start up uwsgi:

7. Done! http://pi.daoyuan.li:5000/

 Update on June 24, 2014:

Getting the external address in step 2 can be done by running this command in Raspberry Pi:

See: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/5427/get-your-external-ip-address

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Solution: dd too slow on Mac OS X

When I was cloning SD cards on Mac OS X using dd', it takes ages to get things done. I was using the following command:

It takes much less time when using /dev/rdisk2 instead of /dev/disk2:

The reason is that rdisks are "raw" thus resulting in a higher R/W speed, according to man hdiutil` [1]:

/dev/rdisk nodes are character-special devices, but are “raw” in the BSD sense and force block-aligned I/O. They are closer to the physical disk than the buffer cache. /dev/disk nodes, on the other hand, are buffered block-special devices and are used primarily by the kernel’s filesystem code.

[1] http://superuser.com/questions/631592/mac-osx-why-is-dev-rdisk-20-times-faster-than-dev-disk

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