simplehttpserver

A simple static file http server

Features

Supports multiple paths mapping
Supports angular router
Supports custom index files
Supports TLS (HTTPS)
Supports basic authorize
Supports compress
Supports log file and colorful output
Supports upload files

Run

Simple to run

Current file path mapping to web root, default port is 8080.

./simplehttpserver

Browse http://localhost:8080

Supports angular router

The dist path mapping to web root, port to 4200, index file is index.html and supports fallback to index.html

./simplehttpserver -addr :4200 -path dist -indexnames index.html -fallback index.html

Supports TLS

First, you can use mkcert to create the cert-files for develop.

mkcert -install
mkcert -cert-file ssl-cert.pem -key-file ssl-cert.key localhost 127.0.0.1 ::1

Then run command

./simplehttpserver -addrtls :8081 -certfile ssl-cert.pem -keyfile ssl-cert.key -username admin -password admin -logfile 1.log

Browse https://localhost:8081

Configuration file

Make a config file

 ./simplehttpserver -makeconfig config.yaml

Edit config.yaml

You can add multiple paths in the config file.

Line starts with # is a comment line.

 addr: 0.0.0.0:8080
 #addrtls: 0.0.0.0:8081
 #certfile: ./ssl-cert.pem
 #keyfile: ./ssl-cert.key
 #username: admin
 #password: admin
 compress: false
 paths:
   #/c: "C:\\"
   #/d: "D:\\"
 indexnames:
   - index.html
   - index.htm
 verbose: true
 enablecolor: true
 enableupload: true
 ## maxrequestbodysize 0 to default size
 maxrequestbodysize: 9223372036854775807
 ## timeout 0s is no limit
 readtimeout: 0s
 writetimeout: 0s
 logfile: ./simplehttpserver.log
 #fallback: ./index.html
 #HTTP_PROXY:
 #HTTPS_PROXY:
 #NO_PROXY: ::1,127.0.0.1,localhost

Run with the config file
```
 ./simplehttpserver -config config.yaml
```

Get help

./simplehttpserver -help

Build

bash ./build.sh