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Momen Zalabany
Momen Zalabany

Reputation: 9007

Running Local webserver on pc or Raspberry Pi while protecting source code

Hello Stackoverflow community :), i really need your advice regarding this issue.

I have developed a software in php/mysql+(js/css) to help me manage my office practice.

I want to:

Setup a local server @ my office,

Problem :

I dont want anyone to get access to my php/mysql files.

can i :-

have a dedicated pc / or Raspberry pi running local server and connected to my wifi with static ip running 24/7 and yet it can automatically restart web server if power down and run server up again without need to enter password. while at same time restricting direct access to read/copy source code files on it -incase some one tries to copy them- ?

My web application traffic is 4-5 devices @ most -tablet/pc's -, yet my application is a bit complex and run lots of data analysis and data mining and its mysql database is growing (50k+ rows in 20 tables)

Optimum solution i would think of is an OS including my server and all its files encrypted and secured against copy/read, once it power up it only brings a web browser directed to the local server web page and that's it.. no any other operation allowed by the normal user other than using browser and connecting to WiFi.

can it be done with windows/ ubuntu or any other distribution of linux ? server folder and xampp be given admin privileges and encrypted and auto run on system start-up even if admin does not log in (in case computer restart while i'm not @ office) and normal guest user can use computer as much as he want as long as he is not touching my xampp folder

This can also be useful for developers struggling to sell php applications without giving out source code

Upvotes: 0

Views: 789

Answers (1)

solick
solick

Reputation: 2345

You need to take into account that as soon as someone has direct access to the raspberry pi SD-Card he can easily get the root password as well as any password to your encryption solution as long as the password is saved on the card.

If you want to be really secure you need sort of dongle your sd card with the raspberry pi to make sure that the encryption can only be done if the sd card is entered in that specific pi and you need to encrypt the whole sd card.

Upvotes: 1

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