Use Pi as Wireless Access Point AND access that pi like a server
February 20, 2023, 20:47
Hi, I'm looking for a point in the right direction. I've followed a bunch of the guides to create a pi access point, but I need some direction on obtaining an IP for the pi that is serving the hotspot. The pi by default seems to create an AP that is subnetted separate from the pi itself.
In my ideal world, I would have zero ethernet. Zero internet. Just a pi with Apache and the wifi hotspot allowing others to connect to that apache server.
Your pi would have to completely emulate an access point
and then you'd need some DNS fuckery on top of that
Right
Well I don't care anything about serving web pages. I'm fine with accessing the Apache server via IP
Apache is a webserver??
yes
And I don't care about apache in particular. I just want the pi to act as a hotspot and a server
I'm doing an HDMI stream but it has a webserver over port 8080 so it basically acts as an apache server
> Well I don't care anything about serving web pages
right
I should have said I don't care about serving internet.
ah
ok
Basically I just want to be able to connect to a hotspot that gives me an ip of 192.168.1.xxx and from the connected device connect to the pi that is serving
that is simple. Just make your pi act as hostapd, run dhcpd & apache listening on all interfaces and done.
All interfaces seems to be the key but do you have any point in the right direction of a guide.
in respective server config
they must listen on 0.0.0.0
you can google for that 🙂
My server actually does listen on 0.0.0.0.
then it should listen on all interfaces
and should be accessible from any network
it should. It doesn't.
ss -tlapn|grep apache