Java Web Server

A simple multithreaded HTTP server built with the Producer-Consumer design pattern and synchronised with blocking queues.

Features

• Directory Listing
• Basic HTTP Authentication
• Logs all requests webserver.log

Configuration

Port

The default port used is 8080. It can be modified either by changing the port value in properties.json or supply it as an argument in the console.

javac App.java
java App <port_number>

Basic HTTP Authentication

To enable, change the username value from null to <your_username> and password value from null to a Bcrypt hash of the password in properties.json

{
	"username" : "your_username",
	"password" : "Bcrypt hash",
}

To disable, set the username and password values as null.

Worker Threads and Connection Queue

The number of consumer threads and blocking queue size can be modified in properties.json

{
	"worker_threads" : 20,
	"connection_queue" : 30
}

Screenshots

TODO

• Request for basic authentication if username & password are set
• Allow user to specify web root folder