Raspberry-Pi

Documentation about the Raspberry Pi 5

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Table Of Content

• Info
• Crashing Stats
• Security
• Photos
• Connect to Raspberry Pi 5 without mini-HDMI
• How to Host a Website
• How to use Cloudflare for hosting a website
• Remotely Control your Raspberry Pi from anywhere
• Setting up my NAS using Nextcloud
• Images of my Raspberry Pi 5 - Final Setup

Info

Here is the name of the tool I used to format my windows disk to ext4 MiniTool Partition Wizard

Crashing stats

First crash:

My Pi crashed once on 29.3.2025
Root-cause: SD-card, system crashed while updating
How-to-fix: I downloaded Archlinux on my USB-Drive, so that I can check my SD-card and fix it with Linux tools.

Second crash:

Not yet, and hopefully, it doesn’t crash again!

Third "crash":

It wasn't really a crash, I just installed a firewall with strict settings and it blocked port 22 and 443. Port 22 is being used for ssh and Port 443 is for HTTPS. Changed the settings of the firewall, I now have regained access with ssh!

Security

I installed a new service. This helps to prevent brute-force-attacks. For further details add a comment.

Photos

All 17 Photos are in the folder "photos".

How to Connect to a Raspberry Pi 5 Without a Mini HDMI and Still Get a Display

First, place your Raspberry Pi 5 into the Argon NEO 5 Case for better airflow and cooling.

Next, take your microSD card, install your preferred Raspberry Pi OS from the official website, and format the card if necessary.

After that, connect your power supply (via the USB-C port) and insert the microSD card into the Raspberry Pi.

After a few seconds, the Pi should boot up completely.

Now, scan your network to confirm that the Raspberry Pi is working correctly. I used Angry IP Scanner for this.

In this application, search for the hostname "raspberrypi.local"—this will be your Raspberry Pi. The corresponding IP address of the Pi will also be displayed there.

Next, open PuTTY and connect to your Raspberry Pi using the IP address you found in the IP scan.
Once connected, enter the following command:

sudo raspi-config

Go to "Advanced Options" (Option 6) and select "Display Options" (Option 2).

Reboot your Raspberry Pi.
Now, you can use VNC Viewer to connect to your Raspberry Pi 5.
Enter the IP address of the Pi and click Connect.

After a short while, you should see the Raspberry Pi’s desktop on your screen.

Congratulations! Your Raspberry Pi is now set up for remote access!

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Raspberry Pi 5 – Hosting a Website with Cloudflare Tunnel

How to build a website on a Raspberry Pi 5

1. Installing Apache and Setting up a Web Server

To host a website, install Apache on the Raspberry Pi:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install apache2 -y

Once installed, the default web root is:

/var/www/html

You can access the default Apache page by opening a browser and going to:

http://<Your-Raspberry-Pi-IP>

2. Setting up Cloudflare and a Custom Domain

Step 1: Purchase a Domain

• Use your prefered Website for buying a domain.
• I used Swizzonic to purchase the domain koteski.ch.

Step 2: Configure Cloudflare

• Register at Cloudflare.
• Add the domain to Cloudflare.
• Change the Nameservers in Swizzonic to:
  • yournameserver1.ns.cloudflare.com
  • yournameserver2.ns.cloudflare.com

Step 3: Install Cloudflare Tunnel

On your Raspberry Pi, install cloudflared:

sudo apt install cloudflared

Authenticate with Cloudflare:

cloudflared tunnel login

Create a new tunnel:

cloudflared tunnel create raspberrypi-home

Save the tunnel credentials to:

/home/pi/.cloudflared/cert.pem

Check if the tunnel is available:

cloudflared tunnel list

Start the tunnel:

cloudflared tunnel run raspberrypi-home

3. Configuring DNS Records in Cloudflare

To make the website available at www.koteski.ch and koteski.ch, add the following records:

Type	Name	Content
CNAME	www	Tunnel ID (from Cloudflare)
A	koteski.ch	192.0.2.1 (Cloudflare Dummy IP)

Enable the following settings in Cloudflare:

• Always Use HTTPS
• Proxy Mode (Proxied)
• Universal SSL

4. Testing and Troubleshooting

Verify DNS propagation:

nslookup koteski.ch

Check Cloudflare tunnel status:

cloudflared tunnel list

Restart services:

sudo systemctl restart apache2
sudo systemctl restart cloudflared

Test website connectivity:

curl -I https://koteski.ch

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Now the website www.koteski.ch should be accessible via the Cloudflare Tunnel. Test it out!

PiAnywhere

Want to fully control your Raspberry Pi from anywhere? Here's how:

Install WireGuard

Tutorial soon coming!

Nextcloud

Tutorial Follows!

It works!

If you do a nextcloud NAS, I would highly recommend doing one Admin account and for every user who wnats to join, to create a new user-account. Make Sure that no-one has access to the admin account because he can see every File from every user on Nextcloud!

Final setup

Here are all the things that came with my delivery

This is the base Raspberry Pi 5

This is the Raspberry Pi 5 with the Argon Case fully assembled

And this is what it looks like while being connected and hosting the website