How to build darkhttpd

Simply run make: $ make

How to run darkhttpd

Serve /var/www/htdocs on the default port (80 if running as root, else 8080): $ ./darkhttpd /var/www/htdocs

Serve ~/public_html on port 8081: $ ./darkhttpd ~/public_html --port 8081

Only bind to one IP address (useful on multi-homed systems): $ ./darkhttpd ~/public_html --addr 192.168.0.1

Serve at most 4 simultaneous connections: $ ./darkhttpd ~/public_html --maxconn 4

Log accesses to a file: $ ./darkhttpd ~/public_html --log access.log

Chroot for extra security (you need root privs for chroot): $ ./darkhttpd /var/www/htdocs --chroot

Use default.htm instead of index.html: $ ./darkhttpd /var/www/htdocs --index default.htm

Add mimetypes - in this case, serve .dat files as text/plain: $ cat extramime text/plain dat $ ./darkhttpd /var/www/htdocs --mimetypes extramime

Drop privileges: $ ./darkhttpd /var/www/htdocs --uid www --gid www

Use acceptfilter (FreeBSD only): $ kldload accf_http $ ./darkhttpd /var/www/htdocs --accf

Run in the background and create a pidfile: $ ./darkhttpd /var/www/htdocs --pidfile /var/run/httpd.pid --daemon

Web forward (301) requests for some hosts: $ ./darkhttpd /var/www/htdocs --forward example.com http://www.example.com
--forward secure.example.com https://www.example.com/secure

Web forward (301) requests for all hosts: $ ./darkhttpd /var/www/htdocs --forward example.com http://www.example.com
--forward-all http://catchall.example.com

Commandline options can be combined: $ ./darkhttpd ~/public_html --port 8080 --addr 127.0.0.1

To see a full list of commandline options, run darkhttpd without any arguments: $ ./darkhttpd

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