How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi

As of the time of writing this, the Raspberry Pi 5 has recently been released. Some people are buying it excitedly, while others think that its value over previous models doesn't warrant the price increase. In any event, many people will be implementing various projects on their new (or old) Pis.

As most Pi-havers know, one of the many cool things you can do on a Raspberry Pi is run a webserver. There are tutorials here and here and probably many more places that explain how. There are also some reasonably well known sites, my favorite being this one, which is run on a solar-powered Pi. And there is also, of course, this site—my personal website—that you are currently viewing, which is being run on a Raspberry Pi in my room.

While tutorials abound in regards to getting a basic webserver set up, there is a difference between a functional server and a good usable website. I've been working on getting my personal site set up over the course of the past five years, spending an hour or so every month working on improving the Pi. I never intended for this personal project to become so lengthy or complex, but eventually I ended up with a fairly robust system for running, maintaining, and editing my website. This tutorial will describe what I've learned throughout the process of creating this site in 15 steps, so that you can use it to create and maintain your own sites.

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