Webserv

Fully functional webserver from scratch written in C++, based on nginx.

Compliant with the norms for HTTP defined in RFC 7230-7235.

Webserver features

• HTTP request/response parsing
• HTTP authentication
• Custom configuration files
• Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
• Php-cgi compatibility
• File uploads
• Chunked encoding
• Multiple server support
• Signal handling

Configuration options

• Port and host of each server
• Server_names
• Default error pages
• Max client body size
• Allowed HTTP request methods
• Url root location
• Directory listing
• Default file to answer if requested path is a directory
• CGI

All configuration options are based on the behaviour of nginx.

Usage

make && ./webserv

Custom configuration file:

make && ./webserv path-to-config-file

The default server runs on localhost:8080