Simple HTTP server that serves files directly from .zip files without unpacking the zip file to the filesystem.
My usecase is to save locally mirrored websites (eg: using wget) as zip and then serve pages directly from that file. This prevents having to store the website as lot of small files - which cause clutter during copy / move / backup operations. Saving as ZIP files also saves some space.
Can specify custom port, host and website root relative to ZIP file. Host defaults to localhost (127.0.0.1) and will not be accessible from other devices on the network.
go install github.com/mahesh-hegde/zserv@v0.1.0zserv is available on ghcr
There's one caveat with docker / podman - the container is a separate host attached with a bridge network. So the default binding to 127.0.0.1 will not be accessible from the host computer.
Either use --network host option, or provide --host 0.0.0.0 to zserv and restrict the docker port forwarding itself.
docker run -dp "127.0.0.1:8088:8088" -v $PWD:/app/ ghcr.io/mahesh-hegde/zserv:v0.1.0 --host '0.0.0.0' my_saved_website.zip
## or simply attach to host network
docker run -dp 8088:8088 -v $PWD:/app --network host ghcr.io/mahesh-hegde/zserv my_saved_website.zip
## use -tp instead of -dp if you want to see the console output