webserv

webserv is a 42 project: You must recreate a static web server (like nginx).

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Features

• HTTP/1.1 support
• Keep-Alive connection handling
• Redirections (3xx)
• Static file serving
• Custom error pages
• Directory listing
• File upload
• File deletion
• CGI execution (e.g. Python scripts)
• Configurable max body size
• CGI timeout handling
• Logger (DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL)
• File logging

Configuration

Below is a working configuration example:

[
  {
    "name": "my awesome website",
    "keepalive_timeout": 30,
    "max_body_size": 8080,
    "listen": "0.0.0.0:8080",
    "locations": [
      {
        "uri": "/",
        "path": "/path/to/location"
      },
      {
        "uri": "/error",
        "path": "/path/to/location/error"
      }
    ],
    "document_index": "/index.html",
    "error_pages": [
      {
        "error_code": 404,
        "uri": "/error/404.html"
      },
      {
        "error_code": 500,
        "uri": "/error/500.html"
      }
    ],
    "allowed_methods": ["GET", "POST"],
    "redirections": [
      {
        "uri": "/github",
        "redirect": "https://github.com/etienne-hd/"
      }
    ],
    "directory_listing_enabled": true,
    "file_on_directory": "/file_on_directory.html",
    "file_upload_enabled": true,
    "file_upload_directory": "/files",
    "cgi_enabled": true,
    "cgi_rules": [
      {
        "extension": ".py",
        "path": "/bin/python"
      }
    ],
    "cgi_timeout": 15
  }
]