Web Server

HTTP Web Server written in C++98 according to the RFC 7230-7235 standard

Features:

• Client-server connection (multiple clients connection available)
• Listening on multiple ports
• Launching several servers
• GET, POST, PUT, HEAD methods
• Error management
• Chunked-requests processing
• Autoindex
• CGI-scripts support
• Client's authorization

This server was implemented as a reference to Nginx HTTP 1.1 compliant.

Usage

Run make inside the repository's directory to build webserv binary. You can also use CMakeLists.txt file.

Program needs the path to configuration file as an argument (example in conf directory).

Setting up the configuration file

In the main server directive we can specify:

• Server ports    _{listen 80 81}
• Server name    _{server_name example.com}
• Root directory    _{root /Users/me/cpp_webserver/resources}
• Custom error pages    _{error_page 405 /40x.html}
• On/off autoindex    _{autoindex on}

In the location directive we can specify:

• Root directory    _{root /Users/me/cpp_webserver/resources/42_test}
• Default index page    _{index index.html}
• Available methods    _{limit_except POST GET}
• Limit of received body size    _{client_max_body_size 1000}
• Path to the CGI script interpreter    _{fastcgi_pass /Users/me/cpp_webserver/resources/cgi_tester}
• Authorization credentials    _{auth_basic user1:qwerty1234}