In this post, I’ll cover using the Rpi as a network analysis tool. The hardware of the Rpi and the open source software that runs on it is an extremely cost effective method to network diagnostics and troubleshooting. The hardware layout I’ll be using is fairly simple. The Rpi 3 has built in interfaces for both wired and wireless connections. I’ll be using the wired connection as my packet sniffing port. It will not have any IP bound to it….
Introduction Having a sandbox is great way to test your disaster recovery methods. I’ll step through a process that makes a backup of the Cacti data. Then we can use that backup file to restore from as needed. There are some prerequirements to the steps I’ll be using. These are LAMP, phpMyAdmin, Webmin, Cacti, and a ssh client. Do keep in mind that any plugins or templates that are not standard are not included in this backup. This simply gives…
Purpose Use the Raspberry Pi 3 with Ubuntu Mate as a sandbox for testing WordPress Details There are several sources of information about the subject of installing wordpress on the raspberry pi. Here are just some that I had found the most useful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbVlFoK_jXE https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/lamp-web-server-with-wordpress/ The fundamentals always start with LAMP. This is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Since we are using Ubuntu Mate, the linux portion is taken care of. Now onto the remainder of the list….