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Topic: Using a TP-Link MR3420 & openwrt as a web server

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I have a TP-Link MR3420 running openwrt and was wondering if it would be possible to connect a USB drive to it and use the router itself as a web server?

I have no experience in web servers what so ever, and to be honest, I just tinkered a tiny bit with the openwrt features, so I'm a total noon in this matter.

Your device has only 4MB of flash and 32MB of RAM, that is the bare minimum to run a modern OpenWrt / LEDE build. If you are running LuCi, you already have a web server running, and it's called uHTTP. Now you just need to add USB support, configure the drive, and then the web server.

Ok. I'm pretty sure I'm running LuCi, so how do I configure the drive and server?

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