nicklauri / aden

HTTP server for small site

KProject Aden Server version 0.1.2

Aden is a simple HTTP server written in Rust programming language ❤️. This version only support static sites, method GET + POST and couple HTTP headers.

*Note: Build on Windows (Linux will be supported later).

Features:

• Fast and light for static web sites.
• Custom the server confortably via config/ such as: home directory, default index file, forbidden files or directories, server bind host name and port, etc.
• Open source, easy to edit and build your own Aden (License GPLv3), read the code, learn Rust and HTTP networking.

Problems:

• Partial-contents has not implemented yet.
• All methods and headers are unsupported :( I'm working on it.
• Codes seem bad, I'll split to new request/error handling.
• Fixed crash system while transfering large files but still can't customize the buffer_size (I love everything is portable and customizable).

Solved:

• Auto abort if size of request (header+content) equals to 1000 bytes. (yay!)
• System will crash if the request file is too big.

Install:

1. Install Rust from https://www.rust-lang.org.
2. Clone from github using Git command line:

> git clone https://github.com/nicklauri/aden.git

3. Build release:

> cargo build --release

4. Setup environment for Aden:

• Create folder www and copy all site contents into this folder (or you can custom this setting in config/config.conf)
• Move Aden binary from target/release/aden.exe to current directory:

> cp target\release\aden.exe .

5. Run Aden and enjoy!

Future features:

• Log manage and color output (console).
• Alias path: long, complex path to simple path.
• Linux support ;) (I'm too poor to buy a Mac, so I can't support Mac).
• Advanced access permission: ban IP, restrict access with specific HTTP header/contents.
• CGI support: PHP, Python, ...
• Support extern module: command line, security mod, ...

You can ...

• Support me by give a star and fix this app by push your solution (pull requests). Thanks.