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AVERELL(1) averell User Manual AVERELL(1)

NAME

averell - An incredibly stupid (but fast) web server

SYNOPSIS

averell [-h | --help] [-p PORT | --port=PORT] [-c | --cors] [-v | --verbose] [-d | --debug] [-a | --access] [-I | --no-index] [directory]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the averell.

averell is an incredibly simple web server, aiming at serving a single directory, fast.

OPTIONS

The program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-h, --help

Show help and exit.

-p PORT, --port=PORT

Set listening port (default: 8000).

-c, --cors

Enable CORS (allowed origins: *).

-v, --verbose

Be more verbose.

-d, --debug

Debug mode (override verbose mode if any): print request and response headers.

-a, --access

Read .avlaccess for per-directory properties.

-I, --no-index

Do not serve index.html file automatically (can be overridden by .avlaccess).

directory

Directory to server (default: current dir).

.AVLACCESS FILE FORMAT

This section describes the .avlaccess file format.

.avlaccess files can be placed anywhere in a directory served by averell. It contains properties applicable to this directory. Properties are inherited from parent directories.

SYNTAX

File is parsed using the file:consult/1 function of erlang/OTP (see erlang/OTP documentation[1]). Parser is strict, be careful with ending dot, comma between tuples and no comma after last tuple.

Example of such file is given below:

	  [


  	    {option1, value1},
	    {option2, value2}
	  ].

OPTIONS

{index, <<"index.html">>}

When requesting a directory path, look for the given filename and serves it if it exists. 403 otherwise.

{index, noindex}

Do not server any index file when requesting a directory path. Such requests will return 403.

AUTHOR

Jean Parpaillon <jean.parpaillon@free.fr>

Author of averell and this marvellous manpage.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2014 Jean Parpaillon

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the Apache License Version 2 or (at your option) any later version published by the Apache Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the Apache can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/Apache-2.0.

NOTES

1.
erlang/OTP documentation
http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/file.html#consult-1
04/18/2016 averell