Note

I'm migrating Rabbit to Codeberg; please read this to understand why.

Rabbit

A really small and fast (like a rabbit) nomad web server written in C, that can be installed in any directory and transferred anywhere on the file system.

Getting Started

First download the source code and compile it.

git clone https://github.com/kevidryon2/rabbit.git
cd rabbit
mkdir build
make

Since Rabbit only consists of less than 1K lines of code, it is really fast to compile; by default, it will compile for the x86 architecture, but if you want to compile for another architecture (ARM32, ARM64, or Risc-V) just specify one of the following arguments to make: arm, arm64, riscv.

If you want to compile multiple architectures at once, choose between the following arguments: x86-arch, arm-arch, aarch64, riscv-arch.

There are a few flags you can define to alter the compilation of Rabbit that you can put in CFLAGS:

• -DDISABLE_CACHE: Disable caching; this is particularly useful for web developers who want to test their website using Rabbit without having to constantly clear the cache.

• -DNO-REDIRECT-ROOT: Disable redirecting / to /index.html.

• -DREDIRECT-ROOT-PHP: Redirect / to /index.php.

• -DERRORS-PHP: Set the default error pages to /(error).php (For example, /404.php or /500.php)

Then, create Rabbit's directory structure and copy Rabbit to it; in this example, we'll be using the /srv directory, but you can use any directory you want.

mkdir --parents /srv/public /srv/cache /srv/scripts /srv/bin
cp build/rabbit /src/bin

Lastly, start Rabbit.

cd /srv/bin
export RABBIT_PATH=..
./rabbit
Rabbit Beveren 1 (PID = <some random number>)
Using port 8080

Creating socket... OK
Binding... OK
Listening... OK

Using directory /srv/

Loading scripts...
Loaded Rabbit. Accepting requests.