Raspberry Pi Server电子书

Raspberry Pi Server Essentials

Table of Contents

Raspberry Pi Server Essentials

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with Raspberry Pi

Hardware requirements

Extra peripherals

Essential peripherals

Wireless USB network adapters

USB hubs

Keyboards and mice

Useful peripherals

Internet 3G dongles

Sound cards

IR receivers

TV and radio receivers

Webcams

Multicard readers

Alamode

HDMI to VGA

Fun peripherals

Joysticks

USB to SATA

CAN bus

Home automation

USB missile launcher

Fingerprint scanners

Installing Raspbian on the Raspberry Pi

Understanding the design of the Raspberry Pi

Boot process

Other capabilities

Hardware limitations

Network speeds

USB bottlenecks

Time

Summary

2. Preparing the Network

Local Area Network (LAN)

The eth0 port

The wlan0 interface

The lo interface

Wireless configuration – Wi-Fi

Recommended wireless adapters

Setting up from the desktop

Setting up from the console

Using wicd-curses

Static network address

Testing and benchmarking your network

Basic tests

Advanced benchmarking tools

Speedtest application

Iperf

Recommended bandwidth

Internet configuration

ISP packages

Home packages

Business packages

Dynamic DNS

Installing the client

Dynamic DNS domain workaround

Summary

3. Configuring Extra Features

Updating the Raspberry Pi

Updating firmware

Updating packages

Outcomes

Hardware watchdog

Enabling the watchdog and daemon

Testing the watchdog

Enabling extra decoders

Buying licenses

MPEG-2

VC-1

Hardware monitoring

Summary

4. Using a Fast PHP Web Server and Database

Working with nginx

Installing nginx

Configuring virtual hosts

Installing PHP

Installing a database

Installing MySQL

Installing SQLite3

Nginx with custom modules

Summary

5. Setting Up a File Server

Preparing the storage medium

Listing the available drives

Formatting a drive

Mounting the drives

Remounting a disk after reboot

Accessing files

FTP service

Connecting with FileZilla

Connecting with WinSCP

Samba service

Installing and configuring Samba

Network shares

AFP for Macintosh

Installing and configuring

Shares and Time Machine

BitTorrent Sync

Installing Sync

Autostart

Hardware RAID

Configuration

Massive storage

Redundant storage

Summary

6. Setting Up the Game Servers

Updating to Jessie

Selective settings

Games servers

OpenTTD

Installing OpenTTD

Configuring OpenTTD

Playing OpenTTD

Freeciv

Installing Freeciv

Configuring Freeciv

Playing Freeciv

OpenArena

Installing OpenArena

Configuring OpenArena

Playing OpenArena

Minecraft

Installing Java Hard-Float

Installing the Minecraft server

Configuring Minecraft

Playing Minecraft

Summary

7. Bitcoins – Pools and Mining

Installing Bitcoind

Bitcoin wallet

Creating a Bitcoin address

Receiving Bitcoins

Sending Bitcoins

The value of Bitcoins

Mining for Bitcoins

Mining with ASICMiner

Installing CGMiner

Summary

8. Streaming Live HD Video

Streaming with GStreamer

Streaming with FFmpeg

Raspivid

Compiling nginx-rtmp

Configuring nginx

Streaming video using the RTMP module

Watching a video

RTMP streams

MPEG streams

Other streams

Summary

9. Setting Up a Media Center

Slideshows

Using fbi

Watching movies

Using OMXPlayer

Playing audio

Using aplay

Using OMXPlayer

Using AirPlayer

Using alsamixer

Installing RaspBMC

Enabling other codecs

Configuring RaspBMC

Wireless

Media sources

Using Add-ons

AirPlay

Enabling CEC

Performance optimization

Change the skin

Overclocking

NFS versus Samba

Summary

Index