weborf - Minimal webserver

       Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli <tiposchi@tiscali.it>
       Salvo Rinaldi <salvin@anche.no>

Minimal webserver                                 May 09, 2024                                         Weborf(1)

       Weborf  is  a  minimal  webserver.  Also  has  a  limited support for webdav.  This manual page documents
       Weborf's command-line parameters.  Weborf is released under the GNU General Public License version 3.

       weborf - Minimal webserver

Options:-b,--basedir
              Must be followed by a valid directory. Weborf will use this directory as root directory, and won't
              send files located in parent dirs. But it is  still  possible  for  server-side  scripts  to  read
              contents  located  anywhere  on  the filesystem. Links are also a workaround to exit from the base
              directory.  Defaults to /srv/www.

       -a,--auth
              Must be followed by a unix socket listened by a program who will handle  authentication.  See  the
              website for more details.

       -c,--cgi
              Must  be  followed  by  a  list  (separated with commas and without spaces) of CGI formats and the
              binary  to  execute  that  format.   For  example:  .php,/usr/bin/php-cgi,.sh,/usr/bin/sh-cgi   In
              /etc/weborf.conf  there  is  a  'cgi'  directive,  corresponding  to  this option. It is used when
              launching weborf as SystemV daemon.

       -C,--cache
              Must be followed by a directory that will be used to store  cached  files.   To  flush  the  cache
              (empty that directory) you must delete the files in the directory.

       -T,--inetd
              Must  be  specified when using weborf with inetd or xinetd.  It will be still necessary to specify
              the used port, to pass the correct value to the CGI scripts.  The -u directive  will  be  ignored.
              Daemon -d mode should not be used.

       -t,--tar
              If  used,  instead  of  sending  directory listing when requesting a directory, weborf will send a
              tar.gz file with the content of that directory.  It is used mainly to share files  and  preserving
              their permissions.  It cannot be used together with https.

       -Y,--yesexec
              When used, weborf will enable CGI.

       -m,--mime
              When  used,  weborf will send the Content-Type header. It is strongly advised to use it when using
              weborf as production server because some browsers rely on this field.  This value will not  affect
              the CGI pages.

       -i,--ip
              Must be followed by a valid IP address (v6 or v4, depending on how weborf was compiled. Run weborf
              -h  to  know it), and weborf will accept only connections directed to that specific IP.  If the IP
              address provided isn't used by a network device on the host, weborf will  terminate.   By  default
              weborf listens to all IP addresses on the local host.

       -k,--caps
              Shows some compile-time options in a machine-readable format.

       -p,--port
              Must  be followed by a valid port number (between 1 and 65535), and weborf will listen to incoming
              connection on the specified port.  If the port is already used weborf will terminate.  To use  low
              port  numbers  (less  than  1024) it is necessary to execute the process as root.  Thus it isn't a
              good idea to run a webserver with root privileges, so it is possible to specify another user.

       -S,--cert
              Path to the SSL certificate. Enables https. Requires a key to be passed as well.

       -K,--key
              Path to the SSL key. Enables https. Requires a certificate to be passed as well.

       -V,--virtual
              Enables weborf to use virtualhosts. The basedir supplied with -b will be the default one (will  be
              used   if   the   requested   host   is   unknown).    Every  virtualhost  must  be  in  the  form
              host[:port]=basedir. The port must be specified if the port used is different  than  80.  And  the
              basedir  must end with a /. To separate many virtualhosts, use a comma, and avoid spaces.  To make
              weborf use different virtualhosts on different ports, it will be necessary to launch many weborf's
              processes. This can now be achieved easily by creating multiple configuration files and using  the
              systemd units like weborf@cfgfile.conf-I,--index
              Must be followed by a list (separated with commas and without spaces) of index files.  Weborf will
              try  to  load  an index file following the order they're listed, and if none is found it will list
              the content of the directory.  In /etc/weborf.conf there is an 'indexes' directive,  corresponding
              to this option. It is used when launching weborf as SystemV daemon.

       -u,--uid
              Must  be  followed by a valid uid, different from 0. Weborf will use this user to do his work, but
              will bind to the network port with the previous user. This mechanism is meant to let users execute
              it as root and use port 80, and then let it run without root privileges.

       -g,--gid
              Must be followed by a valid gid, different from 0. Weborf will use this user to do his  work,  but
              will bind to the network port before changing.

       -d     Runs  weborf  as  a  daemon. It will not terminate when its father process terminates, and it will
              leave the shell free to receive commands.

0      Normal termination occurred after a signal, a daemonization or a print  version  and  exit  or  so
              on...

       1      Basedir is not a directory

       2      Invalid IP address

       3      Port already in use

       4      Invalid port number

       5      Authentication socket doesn't exist or is not a unix socket

       6      Too  many  indexes  provided  as  parameter  to  -I or to -c. Increasing MAXINDEXCOUNT in the file
              options.h and recompiling can solve the problem. But providing a reasonable amount of  index  file
              names would be a better solution.

       7      Unable to allocate memory

       9      Unable to change UID

       10     Error with cache directory

       19     Invalid parameters on command line

       Weborf is able to send dynamically generated pages using php-cgi (if installed).  When  a  filename  ends
       with ".php", weborf will use php to execute this file before sending it to the client. The -c switch will
       override  the  default  behavior.   It is also possible to create scripts or binaries in other languages,
       just read rfc3875 to know how to handle parameters.

weborf.conf(5),php(1)

SIGUSR1
              Prints the internal status of the socket's queue and threads on the standard output

       weborf [options]

Weborf0.13

https://ltworf.codeberg.page/weborf/