uweb

A tiny multi-threaded http server for MacOS, Linux and Windows, released under GPLv2 !

uweb is designed to be a portable, static HTTP server, with high security, high performance and very small footprint. uweb is written in pure C using portable stream file and socket API.

• Have you ever wanted to set up a web server in a few seconds without spending hours in the documentation or consuming to much resources ?
• Do you want to know how to write a server based on the socket programming APIs, writing IPv4/IPv6 agnostic applications ? Or managing a pool of worker threads ?
• Do you want a Web server that you can easily customize ?

uweb is made for you !

Usage:

uweb [-4|-6] [-p port] [-d dir] [-i addr] [-c content-type|-ct|-cb] [-g msec] [-s max connections] [-verbose] [-x file]

  -4   use only IPv4 protocol
  -6   use only IPv6 protocol
  -c   define the content-type assigned to unknown files
       (the default is to reject unregistered types
       -ct is a shortcut for:    -c "text/plain"
       -cb is a shortcut for:    -c "application/octet-stream"
  -d   change base directory for HMTL content 
       (the default is to use the current directory)
  -g   slow down transfer by waiting for x msc between two frames
  -i   restrict uweb to listen only this IP address
  -p   change HTTP port (defaut is 8080), 
       using ports below 1024 need root privileges
  -s   chnage the maximum simultaneous connections (default is 1024)
  -v   verbose
  -x   set the default page for a directory (default is index.html)

Set up for Linux and MacOS

get the source, compile, run :

$ git clone https://github.com/PJO2/uweb
$ cd uweb
$ make
$ ./uweb -v -x hello.html

set up for windows

Even easier : get the binaries and run !

> git clone https://github.com/PJO2/uweb
> uweb\WindowsBinaries\uweb32.exe -v -d uweb -x hello.html

The Pelles C makefile is included in order to create the binaries

test it

from a local web browser open this URL : http://127.0.0.1:8080/