DigI:Village server
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Village server for DigI project
The local Information Spot in a village/school/dispensary has free content stored in a village server. The village server is
Raspberry Pi as village server
This part explains how the Raspberry PI acts as a village server and displays the Yeboo.com pages locally.
Platform development happens on Yeboo.com. From there, the specific files (both phpmyadmin, videos, scripts and other files) are downloaded to a local machine and transferred on an SD card in the Raspberry Pi (RPI). The RPI is configured with Apache2, thus having a Web server to display the Web pages being available on /var/www.
We use standard "pi - raspberry" credentials for the access to the RPI, to allow local communities (IT people) to extend the RPI with additional functionality and files.
Installations:
- We use a standard Apache2, MySQL installation, e.g. https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-apache/
Known issues:
- Standard SD-cards will stopp working when there is too much read/write activity. Thus, for future extensions like log files++ should go on an external hard disk
- hard disk for Raspberry Pi - when the demand is getting higher, we can attach a USB hard disk to the RPI
- we need
Envisaged extensions:
- Hosting YouTube and other videos of interest for the community
We need for test
Mini PC as village server
When the demand for an RPI is too large, we will extend to a Mini PC. However, with the current developments in speed, e.g. Raspberry Pi 4 with Gbit/s interface, it might not be necessary to change the design