RouHim / althttpd-docker

A very tiny althttpd container image from scratch

althttpd docker container

A 'from scratch' container image with a compressed size of 64 KB which is able to serve a static website, powered by althttpd.

Motivation

I really like the approach of althttpd to provide an small and simple application that has only one task, but does it in the simplest and best way.

That's why I had the idea to take this approach further and provide a container image that is based on scratch and do only serve static web files, nothing more.

Usage

Copy your files in the /www folder of the container.

Example Containerfile:

FROM rouhim/althttpd
COPY ./mywebsite /www

This is the simplest example of how to serve your static web files. The port is already exposed to 8080 and the entrypoint is configured as well.

Resources

• https://sqlite.org/althttpd/doc/trunk/althttpd.md
• https://github.com/jveres/althttpd-xsim
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27431910
• https://danmanners.com/posts/2022-01-buildah-multi-arch/