terrantech

I was originally thinking of making a Python/Flask or PHP web app that can take form field inputs and then run a subprocess to run the command, with the inputted data as argument values.

Eg I can input "microsoft.com" into a form field (or passed in the URL like http://raspi/pingapp/microsoft.com), and the RasPi runs "ping microsoft.com > microsoft.txt" in Raspbian (not that exact command obviously, but it's the best way to explain it).

Ideally they'd then see the progress and output of the command in their browser, after submitting.

This won't have public access, so auth/security is not a concern. Pretend every user is 100% trusted, and data does not need to be cleaned or checked in any way.

I'm open to any language, tool, or framework. I just want it to be as light and reliable as possible.

Anyone got any ideas? Thanks.

We're moving a decent sized forum (very specific niche, very happy membership who don't want to move to a subreddit or FB group) off vBulletin 4. 750m posts or so, couple thousand active users, and very image heavy (lots of attachments, think 'DIY projects with build logs' but for a niche hobby).

I like Discourse. I've used it for small private forums and support forums. Before I automatically just go with Discourse, is there anything else out there?

Flat discussion threads, good handling of image attachments (preferably allowing AWS back-end for the file storage), and preferably open-source.