Like you are using this website to read an article on how to make an EPS8266 web server, this webpage is stored in a server of our hosting company. When we talk about web server in the context of the internet of things, the Web server is nothing but the location where our website files stores and Web server process these files to clients based on the request of a client. How to Open NodeMCU based Web Server Introducing Web Server.Controlling LEDs with ESP8266 Web Server NodeMCU.How Does a Web Server respond to a Client Request?.ESP32/ESP8266 MicroPython Web Server – Control Outputs.We have similary guides for ESP32 and ESP8266 NodeMCU using MicroPython and Arduino IDE programming: LED Blinking with ESP8266 based NodeMCU.ESP8266 Pinout and reference for GPIO pins.Installing ESP8266 library in Arduino IDE.
We can access our Web server from the smartphone, tablet, laptop, and desktop personal computer.īefore starting this reading, we recommend you to read these getting started guides: In this tutorial, you will learn how to create Web server to control the GPIO’s of the development board through buttons on Web server and to protect your Web server with password from unauthorized user access. There are different ways to communicate ESP8266 development boards like Android application through WiFi, Web server through WiFi, and Serial communication with PC through the wire. Yes, this is true that we can communicate and control Arduino boards through interfacing externals modules like Bluetooth RF and IR but there are many practical limitations and these techniques are not much efficient while comparing with modules having on board WiFi Like ESP8266 NodeMCU modules. The reason behind this switching is to communicate and control the development board remotely from a internet by creating a simple web server. We move from traditional Arduino development boards to new ESP8266 development boards like NodeMCU and Wemos D1 development boards.