vintage

Let's take it back to the 1990s. This library implements a multi-threaded server that speaks the FastCGI protocol.

Try it out!

Browsers don't speak FastCGI protocol. Thankfully, most popular web servers do. I'll be using Nginx & Caddy as examples.

1. Download either Nginx or Caddy
2. Configure the web server to reverse proxy fastcgi:

   1. If you picked caddy, stick this in a file in the current directory called Caddyfile:

       localhost {
         reverse_proxy localhost:8000 {
           transport fastcgi
         }
       }
      

   2. If you picked nginx, stick this in a file in the current directory called nginx.conf:

       events { }
       http {
         server {
           location / {
             fastcgi_pass localhost:8000;
           }
         }
       }
      

3. Run the web server
   • Caddy: sudo caddy run --config Caddyfile
   • Nginx: sudo nginx -p $(pwd) -c nginx.conf
4. Run cargo new --bin app && cd app && cargo add vintage, and stick this in main.rs:

   use vintage::{ServerConfig, Response};
   
   fn main() {
       let config = ServerConfig::new()
           .on_get(["/about"], |_req, _params| {
               Response::html("<h1>Hello World</h1>")
           });
   
       let server = vintage::start(config, "localhost:8080").unwrap();
   
       server.join();
   }
   

5. Run cargo run
6. Visit http://localhost on your browser!

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