
Serving Pi (Be a Web Server)
Not only can you use the Raspberry Pi to get data from servers via
the internet, but your Pi can also act as a server itself. There are
many different web servers that you can install on the Raspberry
Pi. Traditional web servers, like Apache or Lighttpd, serve the files
from your board to clients. Most of the time, servers like these are
sending HTML files and images to make web pages, but they can
also serve sound, video, executable programs, and much more.
However, there’s a new breed of tools that extend programming
languages like Python, Ruby, and JavaScript to create web servers
that dynamically gener ...