Web-Server

This is a simple unix web-server designed to help me learn more about the how web servers and clients work.

Some properties

• accepts GET, POST and HEAD requests
• can process simple php files
• is multi-threaded (the php processing is concurrent)

Installation

Prerequisites

• gcc installed on the machine (Here is a guide)
• root privileges

Open a terminal in the desired directory on installation and proceed with the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/VladSteopoaie/Web-Server
cd Web-Server/webserver
make # should have gcc installed for this one
sudo mkdir -p /etc/webserver/http/home
sudo mv src/preprocess.php /etc/webserver

You can now move the web files into /etc/webserver/http/home and start the server with the command:

bin/webserver

If you want to make the programm grobally accessible follow this command:

sudo mv bin/webserver /usr/bin

Now you can type:

webserver

If you want to change some configurations of the web-server (root directory, port, number of threads):

sudo nano /etc/webserver/webserver.conf

And here is an example of configuration file:

root=/desired/path/to/the/web/files
port=8080
threads=8

Enjory playing and breaking it!