axhttpd(1)

📦 version 2.1.5, in ubuntu jammy

💖 axhttpd — bestie's little demo web server 💖

okay so you found yourself in the axhttpd(1) page, which lives in the General Commands Manual section (section 1, the "you can literally just run this" section 💅). Sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let me tell you about this tiny icon.

✨ NAME ✨

axhttpd — a demo HTTP/HTTPS server for axTLS 🌈

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

axhttpd [-p [address:]httpport] [-s [address:]httpsport] [-key
private_key] [-cert cert] [-w webroot]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so axhttpd is a small embedded web server that runs on the axTLS library. that's it, that's the whole vibe. smol server, big heart 💖

👑 OPTIONS 👑

one bullet per flag, bestie, no skipping, that's the rule ✨

  • -p [address:]httpport — sets the HTTP address and port. the default is 80, iykyk.
  • -s [address:]httpsport — sets the HTTPS address and port. default is 443, queen behavior 👑.
  • -key private_key — the private key for the TLS certificate 🔐. yes, the actual key, keep it safe, don't be messy.
  • -cert cert — the TLS certificate file 📜✨.
  • -w webroot — where the web root lives, relative to axhttpd. like, the folder it's serving out of 🏠.
🫶 heads up: -key and -cert are literally just the TLS key and cert file — there's no magic, no fallback, nothing else in this page about them. don't invent defaults, bestie, the manpage didn't 💀

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

💜 AUTHOR 💜

axhttpd was written by Cameron Hamilton-Rich 💖. it's based originally on the web server written by Doug Currie, which lives over at http://www.hcsw.org/awhttpd. giving credit where credit is due, periodt ✨

and that's the whole page, bestie 🎀 that footer energy — axhttpd(1), General Commands Manual, no date given — is your lil sign-off from me. go run your smol server, you absolute main character 💅🌟

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