I decided to get my Linux-based cash register site all spiffed up. In case you haven't been keeping up, this time the machine is not going to turn into a register. Rather, it's going to be a tiny, dedicated web server (and formal LED-on-a-stick platform). The question at hand was one of construction, and I've devised and implemented my solution.
You can start at the begining of the story or where I left off.