Rust Web Server

A high-performance web server implemented in Rust, inspired by nginx's architecture and features.

Features

Core Functionality

• HTTP/1.1 protocol support
• Keep-alive connection handling
• Asynchronous I/O using Tokio
• Configurable server blocks
• Multiple server support (virtual hosting)

Request Handling

• Support for GET and POST methods
• Content-Length validation
• Maximum body size limits
• Custom error pages and redirects

Static File Serving

• Directory listing with auto-indexing
• Custom index file configuration
• Root directory configuration
• Stylish auto-generated directory listings with gradient backgrounds

CGI Support

• Dynamic content generation through CGI scripts
• CGI environment variable handling
• Request body forwarding to CGI scripts
• Configurable CGI extensions and paths

Location Blocks

• Path-based configuration blocks
• Alias support
• Internal location handling
• Custom routing rules

Configuration

• Server name configuration
• Port binding configuration
• Upload folder specification
• Client max body size limits
• Multiple methods restriction
• Custom error pages
• Return directives for redirects

Error Handling

• Comprehensive error reporting
• Custom error page mapping
• Error redirects with status codes
• Graceful connection handling

Configuration Example

server {
    listen 8080;
    server_name example.com;
    root /var/www/html;
    
    client_max_body_size 10M;
    auto_index on;
    
    location /uploads {
        upload_folder /var/www/uploads;
        methods GET POST;
    }
    
    location /cgi-bin {
        cgi .php /usr/bin/php-cgi;
    }
}

Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Cargo

Run

unzip URIs
cargo run --release

Performances

This test is not very scientific and was simply a small experiment to see roughly how my web server is performing

bombardier http://localhost:8080/ -c 1000 --latencies --fasthttp -H "Connection
: Close"
Bombarding http://localhost:8080/ for 10s using 1000 connection(s)
[========================================================================================================================] 10s
Done!
Statistics        Avg      Stdev        Max
  Reqs/sec     10256.26    2923.56   19914.07
  Latency       97.03ms    30.06ms   511.95ms
  Latency Distribution
     50%    93.78ms
     75%   108.64ms
     90%   124.37ms
     95%   136.59ms
     99%   181.70ms
  HTTP codes:
    1xx - 0, 2xx - 103328, 3xx - 0, 4xx - 0, 5xx - 0
    others - 0