This web server rapidly grew into something very different and reasonably powerful. Strongly recommended that you use the later versions, which can be found on the PiDP-11 google groups. At the time of writing, the latest version is https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/pidp-11/nE5W6wAEIxA/7mGpfjAYAwAJ
A small, and fairly bad, web server which runs under 2.11BSD.
- Only supports GET.
- Will send images, add your own MIME types if you like.
- Assumes web root is
/var/www - Probably insecure.
- Contributions very welcome.
If my PDP-11 is running, you can see the page it hosts at http://catbert.rhwyd.co.uk or alternative http://emubert.rhwyd.co.uk
Copy httpd.c to your PDP-11, compile it and move the binary to the proper place:
cc httpd.c -o httpd mv httpd /usr/libexec/httpd
Append the following line to /etc/inetd.conf
http stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/tcpd httpd
or
http stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/libexec/httpd httpd
using tcpd instead of directly calling httpd (you can if you
like), will allow you to user your hosts.allow file to limit
access. If inetd was compiled with -DPARANOID (it probably was),
it will also block hosts which have wrong reverse DNS records, which
may not be desirable.
Append the following line to /etc/services
http 80/tcp
Find the process ID of inetd and send it a HUP:
ps aux | grep inetd kill -HUP <PID>
Finally, create /var/www/index.html, along with your other files,
and ensure they are readable by nobody, or world readable.