A Simple Webserver written in C for Educational Purposes.
run (as sudo/root) install.sh (e.g: sudo bash install.sh) this will create /opt/lexiserver/ and move all the files there.
run lexiserver-arm64 instead
remove the /opt/lexiserver directory (e.g: sudo rm -rf /opt/lexiserver/)
The important files are:
- lexiserver (the server binary)
- lexiserver.conf (the config file for the server)
Before starting the server, edit the config to change the WEB_ROOT to a directory that you like. By default, it looks for html documents inside /tmp/www/. You may need to create this directory if you don't have it (you likely don't have it since most webservers use /var/www/html/)
To start the server, run ./lexiserver
If the client doesn't request any page, ej you hit localhost:port it will serve index.html in /tmp/www or whatever directory you decided to use for your experiment.
Stopping the server:
You can kill the PID (Process ID) to end serving documents
ps aux | grep lexiserver kill <pid number>
This is a webserver for educational purposes. Do not expose this to the internet unless you know exactly what you're doing.
- More Error Pages (only handles 404 at the moment)
- start, stop, restart arguments
Inside the src directory you will find the current version of lexiserver.c
compile with gcc: gcc lexiserver.c -o lexiserver
move the compiled version to /opt/lexiserver
The binary has to be alongside lexiserver.conf in order to work properly. If the config is not present, it will assume defaults anyway.
This is a recreational project. Just for fun. Not intended to be serious or to be ran in production. Bugs will be there, things will not make much sense. Feel free to fork the project, fix whatever you think you can fix, and send me a merge request.
To fork the project:
Fork https://github.com/alexiarstein/simple-webserver
I hope you enjoy this little project and if you have any doubts you can write me on discord at https://lexi.lat > mis links > discord
Goodbye!