- Current version
- v1.94.1, 2015-08-26
- Download TinyWeb-1.94.1.zip (216KB), Delphi source code and binary included.
- freeware, open source
- Abstract
- TinyWeb 1.94.1 is a small, configuration free web server for Windows, based on TinyWeb Server by RITLABS S.R.L., version 1.93. 1.94.1 incorporates changes by Peter Thoeny to support CGI files by a certain extension with a certain interpreter program.
- I enhanced TinyWeb with two featurelets: command line options and primitive content negotiation.
- Operating systems/languages
- Windows.
Usage
For basic features and documentation, refer to the TinyWeb homepage at RITLABS. I will only describe the changes I made to the original 1.93 version.
- Command line options
- I included the treatment of command line options.
- Usage: tiny.exe -r RootDirectory [OPTIONS].
The parameters are:-r RootDirectory
specifies the WWW root (previously that was the first parameter)-a address
bind to address-p port
bind to given port--stop
try to stop another instance that was run from the same directory--logdir dir
uses the specified directory for log files--cgiprg prg
speficies a program to interpret CGI files--cgiext ext
specifies the file name extension fo CGI files to be treated by the CGI iterpreter--help
display command line options-c
disable content negotiation feature-l language
set default language (en, de, …)
- Content negotiation
- I implemented a very primitive form of content negotiation suitable for language alternatives of HTML files.
- That means, when you request http://localhost/index.html and you have two files, one called index.html.en and one index.html.de, TinyWeb will deliver the one that matches the language selected in the browser — if it exists.
- If it doesn’t exist, it will fetch the resource with the default language suffix.
- If index.html itself exists, content negotiation does not take place.
Why I did this? Well, I was planning to include multi-language support in dSite and thus I needed a small, configuration free web server that can handle such requests.
Credits
I must thank RITLABS S.R.L. for providing such a small configuration free and still feature-rich web server application.