The mini-httpd Web Server
Compiling the software should be pretty straight forward, as long as you have a moderately up-to-date C++ compiler. GNU gcc 3.x or later should work just fine. Note, though, that in order to build, mini-httpd needs the Boost.Spirit library. You can get the latest version from <http://www.boost.org/>. Chances are good that your system's package manager can install Boost for you, since the library is becoming fairly popular among C++ programmers and most distributions support it already.
If you don't want to install Boost just because of mini-httpd, just copy the header files somewhere mini-httpd can find them during the build. mini-httpd does not need the compiled libraries, just the headers.
Once you're ready, just do the usual
./configure --prefix=/path/of/your/choice
make
make install
routine to install the software. The default prefix is /usr/local/mini-httpd, if you don't specify anything else. More details on how to run configure can be found in the file INSTALL.
GNU gcc users may want to enable gcc's template optimizer by calling configure like this:
CXXFLAGS='-O3 -frepo' LDFLAGS='-s -frepo' ./configure
This should produce a much smaller executable. On my system, the binary's size goes down from 380 KB to 280 KB.
The non-standard configure flag --with-debug allows you to include support for debugging messages into the binary. You can still enable or disable them at run-time, but you're binary will be a bit larger and probably slightly less performant. Choose --without-debug if you don't wont to use any of this.
All further documentation can be found in mini-httpd's manual page. If you want to read to without installing the software fist, run this command:
man ./httpd.8
That's it. Have fun. :-)
Peter Simons <simons@cryp.to>