Sherver: Bash lightweight web server

Here&#x27;s my small webserver:<p><pre><code> #!&#x2F;bin&#x2F;bash while : ; do cat conference.txt | nc -l 80; done </code></pre> Here&#x27;s the story behind it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.go350.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;finding-a-hacked-server&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.go350.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;finding-a-hacked-server&#x2F;</a>

&gt; I didn&#x27;t want to install and configure Apache or nGinx. In fact, I didn&#x27;t want any configuration.<p>Personally, in that case, I&#x27;d use:<p><i>python3 -m http.server</i>

They reinvented CGI scripts but didn&#x27;t actually implement CGI. Could have implicitly supported a lot of apps by default. There&#x27;s some pretty decent CGI libraries for Bash, too.<p>Personally I use busybox&#x27;s httpd (which does support CGI) for a small portable web server.

Just an idea, along the lines of a single binary webserver: one may use Fossil SCM [1] to easily spawn a webserver (&#x27;fossil server&#x27;, or even &#x27;fossil ui&#x27;), no need for root (port 8080 by default).<p>The pages could be served as part of a project (all version-controlled), or as documentation pages, or as wiki. Styling is somewhat limited, but could still be done creatively.<p>Additionally, a static website or even a whole application (PHP or the likes) could be rolled out via &#x2F;ext, the &#x27;extension&#x27; path.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fossil-scm.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fossil-scm.org</a>

It is a socat server, not bash. Basically a bash script calling socat.<p>Definitely not “pure”.

This seems like an odd usage of cat and command substitution to me:<p><pre><code> HEAD_TEMPLATE=$(cat &lt;&lt;EOF &lt;title&gt;Sherver example&lt;&#x2F;title&gt; &lt;meta name=&quot;description&quot; content=&quot;Sherver example&quot;&gt; EOF ) </code></pre> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;remileduc&#x2F;sherver&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;index.sh#L21" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;remileduc&#x2F;sherver&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;scripts&#x2F;ind...</a>

If this is pure bash then so is<p>``` caddy file-server --browse --listen :80 ```

Kudos for scripting a great hack in BASH.<p>Since the title reads &quot;pure bash&quot; however I was expecting to see an implementation using builtin bash features such as &#x2F;dev&#x2F;tcp.<p>Have you considered solving this problem using BASH builtin support for TCP?

Plan 9&#x27;s rc-httpd is quite useful, supports cgi and serves many plan 9 web sites, many of which run werc <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;werc.cat-v.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;werc.cat-v.org&#x2F;</a><p>It can also run on Unix via plan 9 port (p9p) or derivatives.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;9front&#x2F;9front-test&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;rc&#x2F;bin&#x2F;rc-httpd&#x2F;rc-httpd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;9front&#x2F;9front-test&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;rc&#x2F;bin&#x2F;rc-...</a>

Ah, no. Bold claim unrealized. Immediately I see many unnecessary forks and externals to do things that bash actually can do itself.

For the occasional service where you are essentially just wrapping an existing binary, a bash server behind uwsgi can be totally sensible.

Fantastic. For a more sinatra-inspired take, see also <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;guigo2k&#x2F;ganesh" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;guigo2k&#x2F;ganesh</a>

See also:<p>darkttpd: When you need a web server in a hurry.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;emikulic&#x2F;darkhttpd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;emikulic&#x2F;darkhttpd</a>

&gt; I didn&#x27;t want to install and configure Apache or nGinx. In fact, I didn&#x27;t want any configuration.<p>If you ignore all of the manual installation instructions and any dev time you took to create this, then sure.<p>I’m not going to argue that the author should have used something else instead though. It’s a personal project used purely on an internet system of his house. For those kinds it projects “because I could” is as good a reason as any. I just think more authors should be honest and say “I just did it because it seemed fun at the time”

Very cool. Was hoping to see Sean Connery in the README.

Also `php -S` is very handy.

One those things that is s scarily beautiful

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