xerver v2.0

just a light and fast reverse proxy for fastcgi based processes .

Features

• Cross platform .
• Accelerated and optimized without modules hell.
• No configurations needed .
• Standalone, Tiny & Lightweight .
• Supports both http and https .
• Automatically use HTTP/2 "in https" .
• Control the whole webserver just with your preferred programming language .
• Tell xerver to perform some operations using http-headers, i.e "send-file, proxy-pass, ... etc" .
• More is coming, just stay tuned .

How It Works

• A request hits the xerver .
• xerver handles the request .
• xserver send it to the backend fastcgi process and the main controller file .
• the controller file contains your own logic .
• fastcgi process reply to xerver with the result .
• xerver parse the result and then prepare it to be sent to the client .

Installation

Example (1)

Only acts as a static file server

./xerver --static-dir=/path/to/www/ --addr=0.0.0.0:80

Example (2)

Listen on address 0.0.0.0:80 and send the requests to ./controller.php

./xerver --fcgi-proto=unix --fcgi-addr=/path/to/php-fpm.socks --fcgi-controller=./controller.php --http-addr=:80

** OR Listen on address 0.0.0.0:80 & 0.0.0.0:443 ** and send the requests to ./controller.php

./xerver --fcgi-proto=unix --fcgi-addr=/path/to/php-fpm.socks --fcgi-controller=./controller.php --http-addr=:80 --https-addr=:443 --https-cert=./cert.pem --https-key=./key.pem

Open your ./controller.phpand :

<?php        // uncomment any of the following to test it .        // here you perform your own logic      // echo "<pre>" . print_r($_SERVER, 1);        // some xerver internal header for some operations      // 1)- tell xerver to serve a file/directory to the client .      // header("Xerver-Internal-FileServer: " . __DIR__ . "/style.css");        // 2)- tell xerver to serve from another server "act as reverse proxy" .      // header("Xerver-Internal-ProxyPass: http://localhost:8080/");        // 3)- tell xerver to hide its own tokens "A.K.A Server header"      // header("Xerver-Internal-ServerTokens: off");        // the above headers won't be sent to the client .

Open your browserand go to localhost or any localhost paths/subdomains .

Building from source

Author

By Mohammed Al Ashaal