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§This is a fork from Pandora Web Server
§some clean and remove from origin module
§Static Files module for Pandora Web Server
The Static Files module allows serving static files from a directory.
§Supported functionality
GET
andHEAD
requests- Configurable directory index files
- A page can be configured to display on
404 Not Found
errors instead of the standard error page. - Conditional requests via
If-Modified-Since
,If-Unmodified-Since
,If-Match
,If-None
match HTTP headers - Byte range requests via
Range
andIf-Range
HTTP headers - Serving pre-compressed versions of files (gzip, zlib deflate, compress, Brotli, Zstandard algorithms supported)
§Known limitations
- Requests with multiple byte ranges are not supported and will result in the full file being returned. The complexity required for implementing this feature isn’t worth this rare use case.
- Zero-copy data transfer (a.k.a. sendfile) cannot currently be supported within the Pingora framework.
§Compression support
You can activate support for selected compression algorithms via the precompressed
configuration setting, e.g. with this configuration:
root: /var/www/html
precompressed:
- gz
- br
With this configuration, a request for /file.txt
might result in the file /file.txt.gz
or /file.txt.br
being returned if present in the directory and supported by the client. If multiple supported pre-compressed files exist, one is chosen according to the client’s preferences communicated in the Accept-Encoding
HTTP header.
If pre-compressed files are disabled or no supported variant is found, the response might still get dynamically compressed. The Compression module can be used to activate dynamic compression.
§Configuration settings
Configuration setting | Command line | Type | Default value | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
root | --root | directory path | The directory to serve static files from | |
canonicalize_uri | --canonicalize-uri | boolean | true | If true , requests to /file%2etxt will be redirected to /file.txt and requests to /dir redirected to /dir/ |
index_file | --index-file | list of strings | [] | When a directory is requested, look for these files within to directory and show the first one if found instead of the usual 403 Forbidden error |
page_404 | --page-404 | URI | If set, this page will be displayed instead of the standard 404 Not Found error | |
precompressed | --precompressed | list of file extensions | [] | File extensions of pre-compressed files to look for. Supported extensions are gz (gzip), zz (zlib deflate), z (compress), br (Brotli), zst (Zstandard). |
declare_charset | --declare-charset | character set | "utf-8" | A character set to declare for text files |
declare_charset_types | --declare_charset_types | list of MIME types | ["text/*", "*+xml", "*+json", "application/javascript", "application/json", "application/json5"] | MIME types that declare_charset setting should apply to |
§Specifying MIME types
The declare_charset_types
setting is a list of MIME types. Each entry should be specified in one of the following formats:
*
: Applies to any MIME type.text/*
: Type match, applies to any MIME type where the type part istext
. This is processed more efficiently than prefix matches.image/svg*
: Prefix match, applies to any MIME type starting withimage/svg
.*+xml
: Suffix match, applies to any MIME type ending with+xml
.application/javascript
: Exact match, applies only toapplication/javascript
MIME type.
Modules§
- File metadata handling
- Path resolution logic
- Byte range processing (
Range
HTTP header)
Structs§
- Configuration file settings of the static files module
- Static Files module handler
- Command line options of the static files module
- The error type returned by
CompressionAlgorithm::from_str()
Enums§
- Represents a compression algorithm choice.
Traits§
- Trait to be implemented by request filters.