Beaglebone Black and Web Servers?

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Hi:

I am a newbie to the Beaglebone arena and I have some questions dealing with which web server(s) to use.

(i) What is a good web server(s) to use?
(ii) On which Operating System?
(iii) Can Django be installed on the Beaglebone Black?
(iv) If Yes, what would I have to do? E.g. Where to find the install file and instructions?

Note: I have experience programming in both Java and Python; and using the OS Ubuntu and a desktop.

Regards
COG

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Have answers to some of your questions. See the replies below:

(i) Apache
(ii) Linux (Debian or Ubuntu)

Not sure if Django can be installed on the BBB. Will largely depend upon whether or not Django uses any native C/C++ libraries.

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Couldn’t find anything conclusive about Django and the BBB (Beaglebone Black). However I found this blog post on Django and the Raspberry PI. Looking at the blog post it looks as though Django doesn’t use any native C/C++ libraries, which means it can be used on both X86 (eg Linux laptop/desktop) and Arm platforms (eg BBB/Raspberry Pi). Since the Raspberry Pi uses Debian some minor changes might need to be made to install Django when using Ubuntu even though it is based on Debian.

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There is already nodejs installed on BBB, you can simply run webserver using it.http://nodejs.org/

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(iii) Django can be installed. “apt-get install python-django”