qdhserv - A Quick and Dirty HTTP Server

Copyright (c) 2016 Fine Computer Consultants, Inc.

Authors: Edwin Fine ([email protected]).

Wouldn't it be nice to have a little server utility with which you can add and remove served directories? qdhserv is a quick and dirty Erlang escript which does just that.

Examples

# Start server on doc subdirectory with default port of 33558
qdhserv --start -d $(pwd)/doc --id 'docs'

# Display tab-delimited list of servers
$ qdhserv --list
docs	any	33558

# Start another server
$ qdhserv --start --id foobar_logs --port 33559 -d ~/var/log/foobar.log

# Kill all servers
qdhserv --kill

Rationale

When you work with a lot of generated documentation that needs a web browser to view, and you work across many VMs and the like, so the documentation isn't always on your local system, it gets tiring

You could always use Python to do something like this:

import SimpleHTTPServer
import SocketServer

PORT = 5678

Handler = SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler

httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler)

print "serving at port", PORT
httpd.serve_forever()

But after a while, you get a bunch of Python interpreters running on different ports and it gets a bit out of hand. Of course, you could write a nice Python utility to do better than that, but Erlang's really great on multiprocessing. And I like it, so there!

Modules

qdhserv

qdhserv_cmdline

qdhserv_main

qdhserv_types

qdhserv_util