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Introduction

The goal of this tutorial is to set up a minimalistic Raspberry Pi server that will be fine-tuned to your needs and
run headless – no peripherals whatsoever, just the Pi plugged to a router. I will walk you through every stage
needed to accomplish that in a user-friendly way and try to explain everything as we go, but there might be a
part that you will have to accept without much explanation in the interest of being newbie friendly. You can
research those topics on your own at a later time. A lot of administration work is googling stuff anyways,
seriously. It is good to know how to do it.

With a proper internet connection and a domain you will be able to ditch Gmail, Dropbox and a few other
services almost completely.

Purpose of this tutorial series

This websie serves two purposes

To document everything I have been doing so far, in case I forget something

To help you set up a similar server for your own needs

There are many guides on the internet, but I am writing this one since most are not that newbie friendly,
complete and coherent, at least they were not for me. Other than that, it is just for my own benefit. If you happen
to make use of it, great! Tutorials are divided so that you can pick and choose which services you want on your
server.

Server setup tutorial

Your server will be ready after completing the below steps. It might not have any services installed, but it is a
great foundation to build upon!

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Part 1 – Required hardware

Part 2 – DNS configuration
Part 3 – Installing a minimalistic server
Part 4 – Basic security
Part 5 – Port forwarding
Part 6 – Booting RaspberryPi 4 from USB Drive

For use only on local network it is enough if you install the OS itself.

General purpose tutorials

This section has a few general Linux oriented tutorials to help you understand the operating system and provide
some tips.

Part 1 – Basic commands

Part 2 – Useful tricks
Part 3 – Running script
Part 4 – Partitioning and formatting your drives
Part 5 – Mounting external storage
Part 6 – Backup
Part 7 – Using aliases for convenience
Part 8 – Dynamic MOTD for SSH (available in the future)

Additional services
This section has a selection of services that you can set up on your server. A computer on its own does nothing,
services are what makes it useful.

Part 1 – FTP server

Part 2 – Apache web server
Part 3 – PHP
Part 4 – MySQL
Part 5 – WordPress
Part 6 – SSL certificate
Part 7 – Samba file sharing
Part 8 – Nextcloud server
Part 9 – Email server
Part 10 – Webmail access for email
Part 11 – Mumble VoIP server
Part 12 – Torrentbox

A word of caution

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Bear in mind that using such a server for a company to store sensitive data like payroll or invoices might not be
the best idea out there – get yourself a professional who will do that for you, invest in your future. Hackers more
prolific than script kiddies and bots can be a bit of a problem. I am talking about actual hackers to whom your
server will be exposed should it get enough visibility and not that one person who posted “I eat farts!” on your
Facebook wall when you forgot to log out in the library. Keep that in mind when storing your data.

Expanding the knowledge

Cover of The Debian Administrator’s

Handbook

Remember that Raspbian is a fork of Debian. If you are stuck, need help with a particular command or just want
to expand your knowledge, a great place to start is the Debian Administrator’s Handbook by Raphaël Hertzog
and Roland Mas.

The link will take you to handbook’s website where you can read it online. There are translations to various
languages – some more complete than others. You can also download it as a pdf file or buy a physical copy. It is
a great read and will help you a lot. I cannot recommend it enough! Even though it has 500 pages, it can serve
as a supplicant of what you learn here.

If I am talking about, for example, packages you can jump to the respective book chapter and learn more.
Tutorials have practical knowledge, the book has theory. It does not have all the answers, you will still have to
extensively search online regarding specific topics, but it will greatly expand on tutorials from this site.

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