Webserv

Writing an HTTP server from scratch

Description

• A HTTP server, fully written in C++98
• CGI-es for the server are written on Python
• Frontend is based on bootstrap5 styles
• SQLite is used to save logins, passwords, comments
• Cookies and session management are supported
• HTTP response status codes are accurate
• Default error pages are provided
• Clients are able to upload files
• Autoindexing is supported
• Chunked transfer encoding is supported
• Implemented methods: HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, DELETE
• Polling is implemented with kqueue (kevent)

How to use

1. Clone the repo

git clone git@github.com:tsegeron/webserv.git && cd webserv

2. Build a project

make

3. Launch the server ./webserv [config/deafult.config], you can pass your own config. If none is provided it will use the default one. *.config extension is essential.

./webserv config/deafult.config

4. Click the URL the server is started on to open a page in browser (recommended to use Chrome)
5. If 500. Server error is occured try configuring python interpreter to the 3.*v and try different URLs from config file.

Credits

This two-person project was done with mseastar.