I'm intrigued by the possibility of using a lightweight web server to
provide a management/user interface to test equipment or appliances
(e.g. like the NTP server recently discussed, or a box with mixers and
counters).
I've built some web interfaces to very small things using Arduinos and
Rabbits, and it works ok for simple stuff (turning on and off switches),
but as soon as you start looking at a bit more complexity (e.g. you want
to move files around), a bit more sophistication on your server seems
useful. Or, for instance, if you have a DDS you want to program to
follow a particular sequence of frequencies (e.g. to match a particular
Doppler profile, in my case). Or a data acquisition application.
The appeal that the "user client" is that any old web-browser is pretty
generic.
I've done this "sort of" by exposing a directory as a public share (SMB)
and then "browsing" to that file, using the file:// mechanism, but it
seems that actually having a real server might be useful (for things
like POST from a form, for instance)
But, on the other hand, it seems that something like Apache is a bit
much to manage.
Is there something that runs under Linux on a lightweight single board
PC (Raspberry pi or Intel Mini-ITX Atom mobos) that isn't too much of a
pain, and doesn't require you to be a full time web server administrator
to make it work?
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