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Self hosted web sites for older browsers with the Raspberry Pi

Self hosted web sites for older browsers with the Raspberry Pi

Posted on by Gus
The modern internet is too much for the old ipad. Secure sites and the latest javascript features render most of the internet unusable

The solution for this was to use self hosted sites to make the early 2000’s versions of safari and chrome usefull again, but it could also be usefull on other devices

  • 210gb of a portion of the internet
  • Wikipedia images were a little slow to load, perfect for the period
  • There are a few forums available
  • More ebooks than you could poke a stick at
  • Opened in the books app too
  • Video plays great, no sound though
Kiwix
https://www.kiwix.org/en/
allows you to download and serve portions of the internet offline and works well, except for the audio in video playback on TED backups on an ipad1 running ios 5.1.1

Keep in mind you will need a fair bit of storage for kiwix, 53gb for Project Gutenberg ebooks or 78gb for wikipedia with no video’s. There are quite a few sites available that are a lot smaller

  • Due to limited space on the device, it is nice to have access to music streaming
  • There are heaps of old productivity and collaboration tools out there
  • It wouldn’t be an offline internet party without access to a database
The workaround I used for other internal sites was to go digging through the old linux package mirrors and use self hosed sites prior to december 2009 at first. The catch is that you have to run php5.6 or earlier to get them to work

The following command will add a repository on the pi, enabling you to use apt to grab whatever php modules you need

wget -q https://packages.sury.org/php/apt.gpg -O- | apt-key add – echo “deb https://packages.sury.org/php/ buster main” > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/php.list

On the pi zero and pi1 A and B this won’t work, you will need to compile php from source as I couldn’t find a package for ARMv6 architecture

I used mariadb-server-10.0 for older ampache versions to support obsolete features but I did have to edit a few SQL files and replace instances of TYPE= with ENGINE= to get them going

And remember…

Do not host these on the internet. This is for internal use only due to vulnerabilities in old software versions

Winamp 5.∞ and R4 visualization on Windows 10 – Part 2

Winamp 5.∞ and R4 visualization on Windows 10 – Part 2

Posted on by Gus

I recently posted about script notifications on Winamp’s R4 plugin but didn’t give many details on how it was done so I thought I would post a little more information about how to get it going.

Once you have enabled network access to R4 (and changed permissions on windows 10), you have control over R4 via the network in a browser

Now you can send text to R4 using GET variables over HTTP. The contents of the “txt” variable will be displayed on screen or if you select the countdown option, it will count down to 0 from whatever number you enter. The display can only handle 250 characters so when using the countdown option, there is a limit to the size of the number and it will ignore numbers too big

I made a simple HTML page for testing, using code from R4’s web interface for trying things out

This may not interest many people but I thought I would follow though for the people that do. As a notification system, it’s really not that fantastic. Those who run visualizations rarely stare at the screen for long enough to see the messages although a loop that repeats a message untill it has been acknowledged is possible. Also without HTTP Authentication it is not an ideal solution for people with other users on the network or public access. As a pleasant looking way of outputting text on the screen, it does its job. Although I think this is cool, even with the fact that I rarely use it, it still works well enough to document in case someone is interested.

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