TinyC http-server

A very basic HTTP server in C

Is a multithread lightweight web server written in pure C. Compilable for Windows and Linux for server static content and media files from a directory.

Basic usage

Usage:

tinyc.exe --port <port> --folder <folder_path>

Example:

tinyc.exe --port 5656 --folder /simple_web --backlog 4 --no-print

For help usage:

tinyc.exe --help

Options

Basic usage: tinyc --port 8081 --folder /my_web
 example: tinyc --port 3543 --folder simple_web/index.html

Options:
        --folder <folder_path>: Folder to serve. By default is a relative path due to executable location.
        --ip: Set server IP. Default: ANY (Local/Network).
        --port <port_number>: Port number. Default is 8081
        --backlog <number>: Max server listener.
        --max-threads <number>: Max server threads.
        --default-redirect <file_path>/: redirect / to default file route. ex: simple_web/index.html
        --no-logs: No print log (Less I/O bound due to stdout and less memory consumption)).
        --no-file-explorer: Disable file explorer.

• If you dont specify any args, servers will run on localhost:8081 by default serving executable location content.

How to build

Has two versions, default multithread (all) using pthread and monothread using nothing (monothread).

make all
make monothread

Tested on

Windows	GCC	gcc (x86_64-posix-seh-rev1, Built by MinGW-Builds project) 13.1.0
Linux	GCC	gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.4.0

TODO: add utf-8 support for Windows