README.md

TinyC http-server

A very basic HTTP server in C

Is a lightweight web server written in C using sockets. Compilable for Windows and Linux for server static content and media files.

Basic usage

Usage:

tinyc.exe --port <port> --folder <folder_path>

Example:

tinyc.exe --port 5656 --folder /simple_web --backlog 4 --no-print

For help usage:

tinyc.exe --help

Options

Basic usage: tinyc --port 8081 --folder /my_web
 example: tinyc --port 3543 --folder simple_web/index.html

Options:
        --folder <folder_path>: Folder to serve. By default serve all executable location dir content.
        --ip: Set server IP. Default: ANY (Local/Network).
        --port <port_number>: Port number. Default is 8081
        --backlog <number>: Max server listener.
        --max-threads <number>: Max server threads.
        --default-redirect <file_path>/: redirect / to default file route. ex: simple_web/index.html
        --no-print : No print log (less mem consumption).
        --no-file-explorer: Disable file explorer.

• If you dont specify any args, servers will run on localhost:8081 by default serving executable location content.

How to build

Has two versions, default multithread (all) using pthread and monothread using nothing (monothread).

make all
make monothread

Tested on

Windows	GCC	gcc (x86_64-posix-seh-rev1, Built by MinGW-Builds project) 13.1.0
Linux	GCC	gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.4.0

TODO: add utf-8 support for Windows