ant-http

A lightweight and portable HTTP/HTTPs web server written in C:

New 1.0.0 version (BETA feature): Nonblocking event driven base server with configurable number of thread pool workers, good for scalability
Initial goal is for embedded Linux, but can be used as general purpose web server.
Support SSL via open SSL, database via Sqlite 3, web socket integrated
It is also extensible via its extension mechanism that allows to extends the server capability.
Grade A SSL security score by SSL Labs

Plugins:

CGI interface for external scripting language (e.g. PHP): https://github.com/lxsang/antd-cgi-plugin
Lua extension https://github.com/lxsang/antd-lua-plugin: using Lua as serverside script
PHP extension https://github.com/lxsang/antd-ph7-plugin: using PHP as serverside script
Web terminal https://github.com/lxsang/antd-wterm-plugin: plugin for using Unix terminal from the web via websocket
Web VNC https://github.com/lxsang/antd-wvnc-plugin: Remote computer access using VNC protocol on the web (via websocket)

Build from source

build dep

git
make
build-essential

server dependencies

libssl-dev (expecting openssl v1.1.1d, only support TLSv1.2 and TLSv1.3)
libsqlite3-dev

build

When all dependencies are installed, the build can be done with a few single command lines:

mkdir antd
cd antd
# Replace x.x.x by the version number
# build without plugin
wget -O- https://get.bitdojo.dev/antd | bash -s "x.x.x"

# or from the distribution tarball
tar xvzf antd-x.x.x.tar.gz
cd antd-x.x.x
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-debug=yes
make
sudo make install

The script will ask for a place to put the binaries (should be an absolute path, otherwise the build will fail) and the default HTTP port for the server config.

Generate distribution

libtoolize
aclocal
autoconf
automake --add-missing
make distcheck

To do

variable size dictionary
refactoring libantd API, remove unused functions
remove static strings, replace it by configurations

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