darkredhttpd

A version of darkhttpd for BeefLang.

Features:

• Almost every feature of darkhttpd, features not implemented were left as TODO.
• Works on Windows and Linux, and should also work on others operating systems that Beef supports (But some code changes may be necessary).
• Can throttle the upload speed with the argument --throttle

Security:

• Almost every security feature of darkhttpd, features not implemented were left as TODO.
• Rate-limited authentication

Limitations:

• Only serves static content - no CGI.

How to build darkredhttpd

To build darkredhttpd you need to have the BeefLang compiler, if you're on Windows you can download it here, for any other operating system it's necessary to build from source, you can find BeefLang repository here.

How to run darkredhttpd

Serve /var/www/htdocs on the default port (80 if running as root, else 8080):

./darkredhttpd /var/www/htdocs

Serve ~/public_html on port 8081:

./darkredhttpd ~/public_html --port 8081

Only bind to one IP address (useful on multi-homed systems):

./darkredhttpd ~/public_html --addr 192.168.0.1

Serve at most 4 simultaneous connections:

./darkredhttpd ~/public_html --maxconn 4

Log accesses to a file:

./darkredhttpd ~/public_html --log access.log

Commandline options can be combined:

./darkredhttpd ~/public_html --port 8080 --addr 127.0.0.1

To see a full list of commandline options, run darkredhttpd without any arguments:

./darkredhttpd