WebServer

because reinventing the wheel is an option

Features:

• HTTP 1.1 compliant
• Never block and client can be bounced properly
• Non-blocking I/O operations
• Listen to multiple IPs
• Listen to multiple ports
• Methods: GET, POST, DELETE
• Able to upload files
• Able to serve a fully static website.
• Supports multiple CGIs.
• Custom error pages
• High availablity
• Resilient! Server never dies 🙂
• poll() as the default event monitor

Usage:

$ make -C server/
$ ./webserver server/webserver.conf

Configue file setup:

server:
   host: 127.0.0.1
   port: 5050
   server_name: example.com
   location:
   	allowed_method: get delete post
   	path: "/route"
   	root: "/root"
   	index: index.html index.php ..
   	upload: "upload/path"
   	auto_index: on || off
   	cgi:
   		php: "path/to/php-cgi"
   		py: "path/to/python"
   		perl: "path/to/perl"
   	redirection:
   		status: redirection_code
   		url: 'url'
   error_page:
       status_code: custom_error_page.html

Authors:
Ayoub Maatouch
Marouane Ougnou
ElMehdi Mallah