Serve

A simple tool to serve static files from a directory

Installation

cargo install --git https://github.com/Lurk/serve serve

Usage

serve [OPTIONS] [PATH] [COMMAND]

Options:

Options:
  -p, --port <PORT>            port to listen on [default: 3000]
  -a, --addr <ADDR>            address to listen on [default: 127.0.0.1]
  -l, --log-level <LOG_LEVEL>  log level [default: error] [possible values: error, warn, info, debug, trace]
      --disable-compression    compression layer is enabled by default
      --not-found <NOT_FOUND>  path to 404 page. By default, 404 is empty
      --ok                     override with 200 OK. Useful for SPA. Requires --not-found
  -h, --help                   Print help
  -V, --version                Print version

Arguments

  [PATH]  path to the directory to serve. Defaults to the current directory

Commands

  tls   Adds TLS support
  help  Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

tls

Adds TLS support

Usage: serve tls --cert <CERT> --key <KEY>

Options:
  -c, --cert <CERT>  path to the certificate file
  -k, --key <KEY>    path to the private key file
  -h, --help         Print help

Generate self signed certificate for localhost

openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -sha256 -days 3650 \
  -nodes -keyout localhost.key -out localhost.crt -subj "/CN=localhost" \
  -addext "subjectAltName=IP:127.0.0.1"

Minimum supported Rust version

serve MSRV is 1.74