A simple C++ Web Server

First, we need to download and build this project. Follow the following steps to do so:

$ git clone https://github.com/baghdasaryan/Web-Server.git
$ cd Web-Server
$ make

make will build the executable file, server, in the current directory.

Now, you can start the program:

$ ./server

By default, the program will start an HTTP server on port 2048 and uses public folder (located in current directory) as the DocumentRoot. DocumentRoot is the root folder where the server will search for requested files

This server will be and files in public folder (located in current directory).

Typically, a document called index.html will be served when a directory is requested without a file name being specified. For example, if DocumentRoot is set to /var/www/html and a request is made for http://www.example.com/work/, the file /var/www/html/work/index.html will be served to the client.

When an actual file is being requested, the server will try to find it on the specified path relative to the DocumentRoot. If a file can be found - it will be returned, otherwise server will return an error.

This server is capable of serving image files (*.img, *.jpeg, *.jpg) HTML files (*.html) as well as simple text files.