http-web-server

This is a simple asynchronous (epoll-based) HTTP web server. It uses a minimal HTTP request parser as described by RFC2616.

Features:

• Asynchronous I/O with epoll and libaio for disk access.
• Sending static files from "/static" using sendfile().
• Running programs/scripts in "/cgi" and sending the output like CGI.
• Good security policies:
  • Not running under "root"
  • Not needing to be setuid
  • Uses capabilities for binding() ports < 1024

Usage:

$ src/server -h
usage: src/server [-r document_root] [-p port] [-h]
        -r              Set document root
        -p              Set server port number
        -h              Display this information

$ src/server -r www -p 80