A super lightweight way to run a web server in Node.js
v0.1.4
This is a super lightweight web server built using Node.js. I may update this in the future, but for now, it is as complete as it needs to be. This is nowhere near complete enough to run a production site. It was designed solely for small scripts/sites to run without any extra bulk.
The Lightweight Web Server is as light as it is because it is amazingly barebones. There are no added/extra features built into the web server. Lightweight Web Server offers:
- File/directory loading support.
- Automatic directory index detection.
- Indexed directory listing.
- Templated error pages and directory listing.
- Node.js (I use v9.2.1 for testing and development)
- Currently, the Lightweight Web Server does not run PHP scripts. This is not likely subject to change, considering the nature of LWS.
- LWS does not support SSL encryption, though it may in the future.
Installing the Lightweight Web Server is amazingly easy. Use the commands below to clone the repository and install LWS.
git clone https://github.com/coleschaefer/lightweight-web-server.git
cd lightweight-web-server/
npm install
The standard port for the LWS is port 80 and by default it will use
./www/ as the working directory for any hosted files. Both the port
and root are changeable inside ./settings.json. If you don't
wish to change these variables, you can immediately begin using LWS by
dropping any files into the ./www folder.