ant-http/README.md
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# ant-http
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A lightweight and portable HTTP/HTTPs web server written in C:
- New 1.0.6b version (BETA feature): Nonblocking event driven base server with configurable number of thread pool workers
- 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.
- Page compression with gzip, deflate
## Plugins:
* CGI interface for external scripting language (e.g. PHP): [https://github.com/lxsang/antd-cgi-plugin](https://github.com/lxsang/antd-cgi-plugin)
* Lua extension [https://github.com/lxsang/antd-lua-plugin](https://github.com/lxsang/antd-lua-plugin): using Lua as serverside script
* Web terminal [https://github.com/lxsang/antd-wterm-plugin](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](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
* zlib-dev
### build
When all dependencies are installed, the build can be done with a few single command lines:
```bash
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
```
### Generate distribution
```sh
libtoolize
aclocal
autoconf
automake --add-missing
make distcheck
```
### To do
- remove static strings, replace it by configurations