(Q) how to add web page

gearhead

Background:
I am running Motion and GPIO as a garage controller on a Pi running Raspbian currently. It all works as I want with a simple web page and a couple shell and php scripts to do what I want. It'd be really cool if I could replace Raspbian with RuneOS and add my web bage to what is being served. I am very much a noob as far as html/php, etc and especially confused with nginx
Where I am so far: I have loaded GPIO on the Pi running RuneOS and that seems to work. I have added another page at localhost:88 which will almost display my simple page script. I have placed all my files for this web page in /var/www/garage. I have a couple issues, though, to get it all working properly. Any suggestions appreciated.

1) I have a couple text files that need to be parsed to populate a couple fields on the page. The php script will run and change the text in the file, but the web page is not reading it. When I run the php script from the command line, it will also not grab the file contents. The

<input type="submit" value="Light&#13;&#10;<?echo $light_label;?>" style="height:75px; width:75px"/>

instead of the file contents (which I confirm is changing appropriately), it shows "<?echo $light_label;?> in the php script, it is supposed to parse the file and put the contents in an array and it is like this is not happening.

if ( file_get_contents("/var/www/garage/light_flag") == 1) {
$light_label = "on"; }
else {
$light_label = "off";}

Is there a setting or configuration line I am missing in the nginx.conf?

2) When I tried to install Motion, i got a complaint that libav.xx is already installed and is conflicting... I have updated RuneOS via pacman and may have inadvertently caused a conflict. This is a configuration problem and I was going to 'go back' to a new/clean Rune 0.3 and see if I am able to install gpio and motion, but any gotchas I may encounter?

My nginx.conf addition for my web page:

...   
    # start GARAGE section [/garage]
 server {
        listen 88;
        root /var/www/garage;
        index login.php;
        server_name localhost;
        location ~* (.+)\.(?:\d+)\.(php|sh)$ {
            try_files $uri $1.$2;
        }
        # php5-fpm
        location ~ \.php$ {
            proxy_buffer_size   128k;
            proxy_buffers   4 256k;
            proxy_busy_buffers_size   256k;
            fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
            root   /var/www/garage;
            fastcgi_pass    unix:/var/run/php-display.sock;
            fastcgi_index  index.php;
            include        fastcgi_params;
            fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
            fastcgi_read_timeout 3600;
        }

    } # end GARAGE section
...

Love RuneOS and looking forward to my 3rd install to get music in the garage!

gearhead

D'oh! I figured it out...

Instead of <?, I need to use <?php in the php script. Apparently, the apache2/php installation tolerates this and the nginx/php5-fpm does not. Once this edit was done, the web page works on port 88.

To fix the libav error, I renamed the soft link to libav_old.so and installed motion. It then I got the motion video stream on 4040 and then everything 'just worked'.

I'll have rune on the garage controller this w/e.

Keith

ACX

Yep... glad you worked it out alone

Good luck with your project!

Aquarius

That's neat

I chose to get a second Raspi for Motion / Surveillance, myself, but your system works, too

gearhead

Just to finish this thread.

1) if you do try to serve an additional web page with php5-fpm, you need to use <?php
2) I had to 'fix' the installation of libav by deleting the link and then install motion
3) Motion is 'broken' with the version of ffmpeg on Arch (at least right now). To 'fix it' you need to comment out all timelapse references in the configuration file.
4) If you want to launch it as a service, the motion.conf file must load it as daemon.

Also am booting off an NFS mount and have /motion directory mounted on the NAS as well... Works great. Now to build my 5122 i2s board and gop to that!

Keith