How to run a store on a raspberry Pi.?

Question

Okay, I have spent about a hour trying to find a way to get my raspberry Pi (b+) to run a website store. I do know the very basics to using bash but, I am very inexperienced I did manage to port forward a while ago but I am very sketchy of how to do it again.
Any information would be helpful: links, in-depth answers anything to help me on my quest to making a online store.
Many thanks, Nathan

Answer 1

The basic idea is to



a) assign a fixed LAN IP to the Raspberry in its network connection settings, for example 192.168.1.10

which one depends on your router's lan settings, the one I stated only works in a 192.168.1.X LAN obviously



b) sign up for a free noip.com account so you can point your hostname (example.ddns.net) at your outside IP i.e. router, then set up the account in your router



c) set up port forwarding in your router as follows: http / port 80 gets forwarded to LAN IP of Raspberry



How exactly steps b) and c) are done depends on your router model, which you didn't state.

Answer 2

The first step should be to follow this guide :

http://elinux.org/RPi_A_Simple_Wheezy_LAMP_install



It will provide you with all the basics.



If you have no programming background whatsoever, I suggest finding a readymade webshop solution and setting that up on your new server.



Warning : A Pi running exclusively on a SD card will shorten the life of the card.

I suggest also investing in a powered USB hub and a small USB harddrive, then following this guide to move the day to day running from the card to the drive :



http://raspberrypihobbyist.blogspot.no/2013/07/running-from-external-hard-drive.html

Answer 3

nothing