GoKawiilymawky -- web server in ARM assembly
This is ymawky (yuh maw kee), a web server written entirely in ARM64 assembly. ymawky is a syscall-only, no libc, fork-per-connection web server written by hand. While it is developed for MacOS, I've tried to make it as portable as possible -- however, it's likely you will still need to make some (hopefully minor) Significant tweaks to get this to run on Linux/other Unix systems. See Implementation Notes for more details.
Building
Requires Xcode Command Line Tools. Install with xcode-select --install . ymawky only runs on apple silicon (arm64).
Run make to build.
Ensure there is a www/ directory next to the ymawky executable. That's the document root where ymawky searches for files. GET with an empty filename ( GET / ) will search for www/index.html , so you might want to make sure there's an index.html as well.
ymawky will try to serve static error pages when a client's request results in error, eg 404. The pages it searches for in err/(code).html , so ensure err/ exists alongisde ymawky and www/ . See Configuration to modify the default file and docroot.
Running
./ymawky to start running the web server on 127.0.0.1:8080 .
to start running the web server on . ./ymawky [port] to start running the web server on 127.0.0.1:[port]
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