SimpleHTTPServer

A small library developed for use in applications to provide output via a webpage.

Made with extensibility and readability in mind. Makes extensive use of C++11.

The provided example will attempt to retrieve the requested file, if it is a lua file, it will process the file and return the output as the webpage. See Data/index.lua.

Lacks support for HTTP1.1 and websockets, only supports GET requests, but it can easily be tailored to specific needs.

Only tested on Windows, Linux may work with some configuration. (Uses SFML-Network, the premake script may need changes to compile on linux)

Installation

Compilation

• Windows - Visual Studio: Run premake-vs2013.bat, a VS2013 solution will be generated in the Build directory, open up ALL_BUILD.sln and compile.
• Command line: Alternatively, you can navigate to the Premake directory, and use commands premake gmake or premake.exe vs2010 for Windows. This has the provided benfit of command line options.
• Clean: Using the premake-clean.sh you can remove all temporary files.
• Clean-all: Using the premake-clean-all.sh you can remove all temporary and compiled binary files.

Premake actions

The action in premake is the task carried out, it is passed to premake as the first argument: premake5.exe <action>

• clean Removes all temporary files, removes only temporary files such as build objects. Used by 'premake-clean.sh'
• clean-all Sterilizes the repo to it's original state, removes all files including compiled binaries. Used by 'premake-clean-all.sh'
• version Prints out the version of the sources.
• gen-docs Attempts to create documentation using Doxygen (thereby it should be installed on the system beforehand), output in Bin/Docs.
• gmake Generates GNU Makefile build scripts*
• vs2005 Generate project files for VS2005*
• vs2008 Generate project files for VS2008*
• vs2010 Generate project files for VS2010*
• vs2012 Generate project files for VS2012*
• vs2013 Generate project files for VS2013. Used by 'premake-vs2013.bat'

* Not supported

Installation

After compiling, you probably need to install the libraries (.dll on windows and .so on others), to do this just use the provided install-libraries.bat.

Running the example program

Compile all projects in visual studio, run install-libraries.bat as above, go to Bin folder and run LuaServer.exe. By default the program runs on the 9398 port, so to view the webpage, go to http://localhost:9398

Contact

• E-mail - kamil.zmich@gmail.com

License

SimpleHTTPServer is licensed under the MIT License