webd

A website server that can serve static content.

The content can be plain files or HTML templates and YAML content. It is served via HTTP or HTTPS using Let's Encrypt with automatic certificate renewal.

Installation

Download the executable

The executables are in the releases section. They do not require the go language to be installed.

Using go get.

If you have the go language installed, run go get to download the source code and build the webd server.

Once you have a built binary you don't need the go runtime on your prod server, just the webd or webd.exe file and your site templates.

$ go get github.com/robert-wallis/webd

Running a set of sites.

In the example/ folder you will find a sites.yml file.

-
  host: localhost
  aliases: [www.example.com, local.example.com]
  email: test@example.com
  path: .
  bind:
    http: :80
  letsencrypt: true
-
  host: files.example.com
  static: true
  path: ../test_data/files.example.com
  bind:
    http: :80

Each site is a seperate section (yaml document).

If you want to serve https then make sure you use https: :443 in the bind section.

static means don't serve templates, but just any files in the path folder.

path is relative to the configuration yaml file's location.

To run a site using the example sites.yml file run:

webd example/sites.yaml