C-Based HTTP Web Server

A lightweight HTTP web server implemented from scratch in C.
This project demonstrates low-level networking, file handling, and basic web server functionality.

✨ Features

• Handles basic HTTP GET requests
• Serves static files:
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Images (JPG)
  • PDF documents
• Modular project structure
• Access logging
• Custom Makefile for build automation

📂 Project Structure

.
├── server.c
├── Makefile
├── public/
│ ├── css/
│ │ └── styles.css
│ ├── js/
│ │ └── script.js
│ ├── images/
│ │ └── sample.jpg
│ ├── docs/
│ │ └── sample.pdf
│ ├── home.html
│ ├── about.html
│ └── index.php

🚀 Future Improvements

• Multithreading
• Better error handling
• HTTP POST support
• Security hardening
• Directory traversal protection

👤 Author

Dinu Jayatissa BSc (Hons) Computer Science Undergrad – UCSC