Web Server:

As the title suggests, this is a web server that serves up static web pages and other resources to web browsers or other clients.

Motivation

This is a hobby project we did as a part of learning networking and socket programming in C++ and WIN32 api for windows.

Screenshots:

Technologies used:

• C++ (MSVC)
• Win32 API
  • sockets
  • threads
• C++ STL

Features:

• Serve up static web pages
• serve up media (audio, video, images)
• Serve nested pages in I-Frame
• Checks for unavailable resources
• easy to get up and running with for simple uses
• easy to customize and build up on

Installation:

1. Clone this repository
2. open the .sln file in visual studio 2019
3. in main.cpp, change the #define CONTENT_BASE_DIR to the folder which you would like to serve
4. specify the #define FILE_NOT_FOUND_PATH file path to show when an unavailable resource is requested
5. Build the solution
6. the built binary is inside the bin folder of the project directory