Local Webserver

This repository provides a local webserver which serves the local directory in which it was stored. If the server ist stored at /home/user/tmp/directory.d/server it will serve all files in /home/user/tmp/directory.d/.

Usage

# Start server with random port (1023 < port < 65535) and localhost as interface and be verbose
server

# Start server with port and interface defined
server --port 1234 --interface 127.0.0.2

# Do not output anything
server --silent

Example

% ./server
Open browser with http://127.0.0.1:7574/index.html
Server listens on 127.0.0.1:7574

Requests:
127.0.0.1 - - [26/Nov/2014:14:34:10 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 41 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0"

Development

See this page for a good introduction for a Go-installation which can compile Go-binaries for multiple operating systems - tested on Archlinux (64bit) only.

Configure shell

This is optional and highly opionated. Just make sure the go path is set correctly.

.bashrc / .zshrc

export GOPATH=~/.local/share/go
export PATH=~/.local/share/go/bin:$PATH
export PATH=~/.local/share/golang/bin:$PATH

Clone repository

hg clone -u release https://code.google.com/p/go <golang_path>
hg update default

Build go

cd <golang_path>/src
GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 ./make.bash --no-clean 2> /dev/null 1> /dev/null
GOOS=darwin  GOARCH=amd64 ./make.bash --no-clean 2> /dev/null 1> /dev/null
GOOS=linux  GOARCH=amd64 ./make.bash --no-clean 2> /dev/null 1> /dev/null

Bootstrap application

./bootstrap.sh

Build application

To build the software you need to run the following command. This will create the executable files.

./build.sh

License

Please see the LICENSE.md.

maxmeyer/local_webserver