CIVETWEB(1)

💖 CIVETWEB(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the CIVETWEB(1) page, it's the User Commands manual and it's literally about an embeddable web server 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

civetweb — embeddable web server with optional CGI, SSL and Lua support 🌸

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

CivetWeb v1.12, built on Sep 14 2020 👑

No cap, that's the whole vibe. Now let's get into how you actually run this thing.

🫶 Usage:

Start server with a set of options:

civetweb [config_file]
civetweb [-option value ...]

Run as client:

civetweb -C url

Show system information:

civetweb -I

Add user/change password:

civetweb -A <htpasswd_file> <realm> <user> <passwd>

Remove user:

civetweb -R <htpasswd_file> <realm> <user>

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✨ OPTIONS: ✨

here's the whole menu, every single one, with the default it ships with. don't skip, iykyk 💅

• -listening_ports — default 8080. the ports sitch, and 8080 is the starting point bestie.
• -num_threads — default 50.
• -run_as_user — default <empty>.
• -tcp_nodelay — default 0.
• -max_request_size — default 16384.
• -linger_timeout_ms — default <empty>.
• -connection_queue — default 20.
• -listen_backlog — default 200.
• -allow_sendfile_call — default yes.
• -throttle — default <empty>.
• -access_log_file — default <empty>.
• -error_log_file — default <empty>.
• -enable_keep_alive — default no.
• -request_timeout_ms — default 30000.
• -keep_alive_timeout_ms — default 500.
• -decode_url — default yes.
• -document_root — default <empty>.
• -cgi_pattern — default **.cgi$|**.pl$|**.php$.
• -cgi_environment — default <empty>.
• -put_delete_auth_file — default <empty>.
• -cgi_interpreter — default <empty>.
• -protect_uri — default <empty>.
• -authentication_domain — default mydomain.com.
• -enable_auth_domain_check — default yes.
• -ssi_pattern — default **.shtml$|**.shtm$.
• -enable_directory_listing — default yes.
• -global_auth_file — default <empty>.
• -index_files — default index.xhtml,index.html,index.htm,index.cgi,index.shtml,index.php.
• -access_control_list — default <empty>.
• -extra_mime_types — default <empty>.
• -ssl_certificate — default <empty>.
• -ssl_certificate_chain — default <empty>.
• -url_rewrite_patterns — default <empty>.
• -hide_files_patterns — default <empty>.
• -ssl_verify_peer — default no.
• -ssl_ca_path — default <empty>.
• -ssl_ca_file — default <empty>.
• -ssl_verify_depth — default 9.
• -ssl_default_verify_paths — default yes.
• -ssl_cipher_list — default <empty>.
• -ssl_protocol_version — default 0.
• -ssl_short_trust — default no.
• -access_control_allow_origin — default *.
• -access_control_allow_methods — default *.
• -access_control_allow_headers — default *.
• -error_pages — default <empty>.
• -static_file_max_age — default 3600.
• -static_file_cache_control — default <empty>.
• -strict_transport_security_max_age — default <empty>.
• -additional_header — default <empty>.
• -allow_index_script_resource — default no.
• -title — default <empty>.
• -icon — default <empty>.
• -website — default <empty>.
• -add_domain — default <empty>.
• -hide_tray — default <empty>.

lowkey important: those <empty> defaults are literally the word the manpage uses, so that's what you get, don't come for me 🫶

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

This manpage was written by Andreas Tille for the Debian distribution and can be used for any other usage of the program. periodt 💖

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and that's the whole page bestie ✨ sign-off time: this is civetweb 1.12, dated September 2020, and you read it all the way through — main character energy fr fr 👑💅🎀