Raspberry PI as a home server

Overview

Services	Description
Apache Webserver	To use for all services
Transmission Daemon	Run torrents through transmission
PHP Media Center	Watch downloaded videos directly in your browser
Samba Daemon	Access downloaded files through SMB share
MariaDB Database	For further projects

Prerequisites

• Raspberry PI with network access
• Installed Raspbian OS on SD card (https://www.raspbian.org/)
• additional hard drive or USB Stick attached to Raspberry

How to access raspberry to configure wlan

You need to be able to connect it to a machine via network cable.

In my example I'm using an Ubuntu laptop with network jack

• Connect cable to both laptop and Raspberry
• Set network connection to shared connection
• Run following command

cat /var/lib/mis/dnsmasq.leases

Which gives you an output like: 1602834200 dc:a6:32:5a:c1:84 10.42.0.181 piserver 01:dc:a6:32:5a:c1:84

ssh [email protected]

Now that you are on your Raspberry, to setup your wifi with passphrase, follow the guide at (https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wireless/wireless-cli.md)

Installation

Install Ansible and git on your raspberry

apt get install ansible git

Clone git repo and change into cloned one

git clone https://github.com/marcoschum/ans_piserver
cd ans_piserver

Before running Ansible

• Make sure you adjust the settings under vars/global.yml according to your needs!

Run Ansible locally

Apply Ansible configuration by running setup.yml locally

sudo ansible-playbook --connection=local --inventory=127.0.0.1, setup.yml

Run specific playbook again

You can find all of them in the books folder. In this example we run copy.yml again

sudo ansible-playbook --connection=local --inventory=127.0.0.1, books/copy.yml

Install PHPmyAdmin interface

Navigate to version under https://www.phpmyadmin.net/downloads/ and copy the link to the latest version.

wget https://files.phpmyadmin.net/phpMyAdmin/5.0.2/phpMyAdmin-5.0.2-english.tar.gz
tar -xvf phpMyAdmin-5.0.2-english.tar.gz
mkdir -p /var/www/html/pma
mv phpmyadmin /var/www/html/pma
systemctl restart apache2