Rustatic - Rust Static server

When locally developing a static web site it can quite useful to be able to run a small web server and be able to see the results.

Rustatic provides this service.

Installation

General public

• We will prepare binary executables for you.

Every command line parameter has a default value

• --path defaults to the current directory
• --host defaults to 127.0.0.1
• --port defaults to 5000
• --indexfile defaults to nothin. if provided then accessing a directory will yield the contenct of this file. Usually people have --indexfile index.html.
• --nice Server .html files with the extension. If the user accessed /path/page return the /path/page.html file.

Rust users

• If you have Rust installed you can install rustatic using the following command:

cargo install ruststatic

• Then you can run

rustatic --help
rustatic --version
rustatic --path /path/to/html --host 127.0.0.1 --port 5000

Developers

If you would like to help with the development of rustatic you can clone the repo and run the program without further installation:

git clone https://github.com/szabgab/rustatic
cd rustatic

Then you can run the command like this:

cargo run -- --help
cargo run -- --version


cargo run -- --path /path/to/html --host 127.0.0.1 --port 5000
cargo run -- --indexfile index.html --nice --host 127.0.0.1 --port 5000 --path /path/to/html

Release and publish

• Update version number in Cargo.toml
• git commit
• git tag
• cargo publish

TODO

• create executable that people can download so no need to clone from repo
• Handle TODO items in the code.