SServer

Simple HTTP Server or simply: Simple Server

Author: Ladislav Floriš

Getting Started

After cloning the repository, run make in terminal, which will generate the documentation and compile the source files. Then run the project using make run or call the generated binary directly, optionally passing a path to a config file as an argument.

Prerequisites

C++ 17
g++ verion 8 and higher
Running on Linux/Unix os only

Compiling & Running

Run make compile in project directory and then call the generated binary ./sserver optionally, passing a config file, you can see an example at examples/config.txt, feel free to edit the config as you need.

Run make clean to delete the generated binaries and object files.

Specification

Minimalistic HTTP Server serving static files (html, images and other) as well as running executable scripts. The server supports HTTP Version 1.1 and it is limited to GET requests only. Due to usage of system calls like sendfile(), it is portable only to Unix/Linux.

It is possible to customize server configuration by modifying a config file (logic implemented in CConfiguration class).

Server implements a simple multi-threading model. Each connection gets a dedicated thread (ideally a thread pool should be used in the future), to make serving multiple clients faster.

Acknowledgments