simple-http-server

This is a simple, configurable http server.

All the configuration is done in a config file, which is passed to the binary as the first argument.

Config file format

The file format is TOML.
All relative file paths are interpreted as relative to the config file.

Global keys

• 'addr' (required): the address (including port) to bind to (this is resolved using the hosts file so you can put e.g. 'localhost')
• 'failsafe_addrs' (optional): the addresses to try one after the other if binding to 'addr' fails (1)
• '404' (optional): the path to the html file that will be displayed with an error 404 response

(1): Trying stops once a working one is found and that one is then used

Sections

• 'get_routes' (optional): specify which GET request paths lead to which files (the values are FileObjects)
  • note: if you want to route the root page, you need to specify an empty key, i.e. "" = "root.html"
  • the special (optional) 'direct' key has to be a list of FileObjects. This is a shorthand for directly using the GET request path to read the file. For that reason, absolute paths outside of the config file's directory are disallowed here. Examples:
    • direct = ["a/b"] is equivalent to "a/b" = "a/b"
    • direct = [{ type = "t", path = "a/b" }] is equivalent to "a/b" = { type = "t", path = "a/b" }
  • the special (optional) 'unspecial' subtable is used to configure routes to URLs that would otherwise be parsed as special keys, i.e. 'direct' and 'unspecial'.

Other

• A FileObject is either a path (relative or absolute) or a map of the form { type = <mime type>, path = <path> }
• Currently supported inferred Media Types are
  • text/plain from .txt
  • text/html from .html
  • text/css from .css
  • text/javascript from .js
  • image/png from .png
  • image/jpeg from .jpg or .jpeg
  • image/jxl from .jxl
  • image/svg from .svg
  • video/mp4 from .mp4 or .m4v
  • video/x-matroska from .mkv
  • application/pdf from .pdf
  • application/wasm from .wasm