tumbleweed(1) -- Instant webserver

SYNOPSIS

tumbleweed [-f] [-q] [-p port] [-i index] workdir

DESCRIPTION

tumbleweed is a simple webserver for static content with a low memory footprint for the Linux OS. It uses the Linux EPOLL event system, does non-blocking IO, supports Zero-Copy and uses all the cores you have. It is actually really fast. It has a limited HTTP feature set though. Range requests, even multi range requests, are supported. Pipelined HTTP requests are supported as well. On the fly compression is not supported.

OPTIONS

• -p port: Listen to this port. (Default: TCP/8080)

• -i index: Serve this file if the requested entity is a directory. (Default: index.html)

• -d: Fork a daemon and run in background. The output will be send to syslog.

• -q: Be quiet and do not log anything.

EXAMPLES

Serve ~/Public at port 8080:

$ tumbleweed

Serve a jekyll generated site at port 80. tumbleweed will set its UID to nobody when started with root privileges.

$ sudo -E tumbleweed -p 80 /var/www/jekyll/_site

INSTALLATION

There is a simple installation helper for Debian/Ubuntu. Just run one of the following commands to create a installable package.

$ make debian
$ make ubuntu

Otherwise, you may use

$ make
$ sudo make install

BUGS

Not being fully blown with funky features.