white-rabbit

Simple libmicrohttpd C web server. It hosts one route /whois that returns the server hostname. Some things to take notice:

• Threading model: Main thread doing select, and Thread Pool (min 2).
• Hostname variable: Is a global heap-allocated variable (freed up when exiting program), it is re-defined on controller.h.
• Linking: Is dynamically linked.

Compile

Install libmicrohttpd

First download libmicrohttpd.

• Fedora:

   sudo dnf install libmicrohttpd libmicrohttpd-devel
  

• Ubuntu:

   sudo apt-get install libmicrohttpd libmicrohttpd-dev
  

Make

Execute make. You can use this options:

• DEBUG=1: It uses the MHD_USE_DEBUG

Binary

The binary should be on the folder bin.

FAQ

• Which threading model should i use ?

  • Threading models. The best combo for maximum performance and scalability is MHD_USE_SELECT_INTERNALLY with MHD_OPTION_THREAD_POOL_SIZE.

• ccache: error: Failed to create temporary file for Permission denied

  • ccache doc. According to this, we should chown ~/.ccache to the compiling user