chttpd is a lightweight and safe HTTP server which can serve static contents retrievable with HTTP GET requests. Incoming requests can be handled concurrently.

To build chttpd, run the following. A binary named chttpd will be built.

git clone https://github.com/ZhongRuoyu/chttpd.git
cd chttpd
git checkout v0.2.2
make -j "$(nproc)"

Your C compiler and C standard library need to have support for C11 and POSIX.1-2008.

chttpd is configured through command line options. For example, the following command starts an HTTP server that serves contents under the site directory, over http://<hostname>:8080.

chttpd -p 8080 -r site

chttpd can also be run as a daemon (hence its name), when -d is passed. For example, the following command runs chttpd as a daemon which does the same thing as above, but also saves the log output to chttpd.log.

chttpd -d -p 8080 -r site -l chttpd.log

For more information, run chttpd --help.

chttpd is also available as a Docker image:

docker run -d -p 8080:80 -v "$(pwd)/site:/site" zhongruoyu/chttpd -r /site

chttpd is licensed under the MIT License.