A tiny multi-threaded http server for MacOS, Linux and Windows, released under GPLv2 !
uhttpd is designed to be a portable, static HTTP server, with high security, high performance and very small footprint. uhttpd is written in pure C using portable stream file and socket API.
- Have you ever wanted to set up a web server in a few seconds without spending hours in the documentation or consuming to much resources ?
- Do you want to know how to write a server based on the socket programming APIs, writing IPv4/IPv6 agnostic applications ? Or managing a pool of worker threads ?
- Do you want a Web server that you can easily customize ?
uhttpd is made for you !
uhttpd [-4|-6] [-p port] [-d dir] [-i addr] [-c content-type|-ct|-cb] [-g msec] [-s max connections] [-verbose] [-x file]
-4 use only IPv4 protocol
-6 use only IPv6 protocol
-c define the content-type assigned to unknown files
(the default is to reject unregistered types
-ct is a shortcut for: -c "text/plain"
-cb is a shortcut for: -c "application/octet-stream"
-d change base directory for HMTL content
(the default is to use the current directory)
-g slow down transfer by waiting for x msc between two frames
-i restrict uweb to listen only this IP address
-p change HTTP port (defaut is 8080),
using ports below 1024 need root privileges
-s chnage the maximum simultaneous connections (default is 1024)
-v verbose
-x set the default page for a directory (default is index.html)
get the source, compile, run :
$ curl -O -L -s https://github.com/PJO2/uhttpd/raw/master/uhttpd.c
$ cc -O -Wall -D UNIX -o uhttpd -l pthread uhttpd.c
$ ./uhttpd -v -x hello.html
use the Pelles C compiler and add its directory into the PATH environment variable, then
$ certutil.exe -urlcache -split -f https://github.com/PJO2/uhttpd/raw/master/uhttpd.c
$ pomake Makefile.win32
from a local web browser open this URL : http://127.0.0.1:8080/