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http-server
http-server is a simple http server that does not conform to any standards. It's main purpose is for experimentation: both playing around with HTTP quirks and simple socket programming under Linux.
Versions
The current master branch version is epoll based, but a traditional iterative version was tagged as traditional-iterative (use git show traditional-iterative to view more information about it).
Requirements
I have tested building the program with the following compilers:
- gcc 8.3.0
- gcc 9.1.0
- clang 8.0.0
The build process requires make. Testing (make tests) uses curl of which I used curl 7.65.1.
Building
Run make all.
Running
Run make check or change directory to the bin/ directory and run the server binary yourself (most likely ./server.out). You probably want to create a subfolder in bin/ to serve as root for the webserver (i.e. a directory it will serve static files from). By default it looks for ./www/ in its working directory. The default behaviour of the webserver is to serve /index.html when it gets a request ending with /, e.g. /mydirectory/ will have the webserver search for the file ./www/mydirectory/index.html (by default this would translate to bin/www/mydirectory/index.html as seen from the repository root).
The webserver currently is not configurable, despite there being a bin/server.cfg file. This file is simply ignored for now.