What is this

This is our http webserver, we built a lightweight HTTP server from scratch that can handle multiple connections at once.

Tech stack we used to build the webserver

• C/C++
• Epoll API for handling many connections without creating a thread for each one
• HTTP protocol implementation

How this cool webserver work :D

• clone the repo (obviously)
• compile the source code using 'make'
• run ./webserver webserv.conf
• here is how you can define the configuration file:

SERVER = [
    port = 9999, 7331;
    host = 127.0.0.1;
    allowed_methods = GET, POST, DELETE;
    max_body_size = 880803840;
    server_names = www.enginx.com, www.enginx.ma;
    error_pages = 500:www/html/500.html, 404:www/html/404.html;
    
    route = / : ROOT=www/html, DEFAULT_FILE=index.html...;
    route = /contact-us : ROOT=www/html/contact-us...;
]

simple, right? it does the job without any unnecessary complexity.

• You can create multiple server blocks for different configurations
• You can assign additional rules to a route by simply append the rule KEY to the end of the route line. (take a look at the given configuration file, maybe you can understand)

Benchmark Results

I tested the server performance using wrk tool and here is the result:

As u can see

• Requests/sec: 16789.31
• Transfer/sec: 25.59MB
• Over 1 million requests processed in 1 minute
• No connection errors (100% availability)

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