NAME
bozohttpd
- hyper text transfer protocol version 1.1 daemon
SYNOPSIS
bozohttpd
[-HXbaenrus]
[-C suffix cgihandler]
[-I port]
[-M suffix type encoding encoding11]
[-S server_software]
[-c cgibin]
[-i address]
[-p pubdir]
[-v virtualroot]
[-x index]
[-Z cert privkey]
slashdir
[myname]
DESCRIPTION
The
bozohttpd
program reads a
HTTP
request from the standard input, and sends a reply to the standard output.
Besides ~user translation and virtual hosting support (see below), all file
requests are from
slashdir
directory.
The server uses
myname
as its name, which defaults to the local hostname, obtained from
gethostname(3)
(but see the
-v
option for virtual hosting.)
bozohttpd
is designed to be small, simple and relatively featureless,
hopefully increasing its security.
OPTIONS
The following options are available:
- -a
-
This option is only useful with CGI mode.
It indicates that
bozohttpd
should not output any HTTP headers, but rely on the CGI program itself.
- -b
-
This option enables daemon mode, where
bozohttpd
detaches from the current terminal, running in the background and
servicing HTTP requests.
- -C suffix cgihandler
-
This option adds a new CGI handler program for a particularly file type.
The
suffix
should be any normal file suffix, and the
cgihandler
should be a full path to an interpreter.
This option is the only way to enable CGI programs that exist
outside of the cgibin directory to be executed.
Multiple
-C
options may be passed.
- -c cgibin
-
This option enables the CGI/1.1 interface.
The
cgibin
directory is expected to contain the CGI programs to be used.
bozohttpd
looks for URL's in the form of
/cgi-bin/
where
is a valid CGI program in the
cgibin
directory.
In other words, all CGI URL's must begin with
/cgi-bin/.
Note that the CGI/1.1 interface is not available with
~user
translation.
- -e
-
This option causes
bozohttpd
to not clear the environment when used with either the
-t
or
-U
options.
- -H
-
This option causes directory index mode to hide files and directories
that start with a period, except for
...
Also see
-X.
- -I port
-
This option is only valid with the
-b
option. It causes
port
to use used as the port to bind daemon mode.
The default is the
``http''
port.
- -i address
-
This option is only valid with the
-b
option. It causes
address
to use used as the address to bind daemon mode.
If otherwise unspecified, the address used to bind is derived from the
myname,
which defaults to the name returned by
gethostname(3).
- -M suffix type encoding encoding11
-
This option adds a new entry to the table that converts file suffixes to
content type and encoding.
This option takes four additional arguments containing
the file prefix, its
``Content-Type'',
``Content-Encoding''
and
``Content-Encoding''
for HTTP/1.1 connections, respectively.
If any of these are a single
``-''
(dash), the empty string is used instead.
Multiple
-M
options may be passed.
- -n
-
This option stops
bozohttpd
from doing IP address to name resolution of hosts for setting the
REMOTE_HOST
variable before running a CGI program.
This option has no effect without the
-c
option.
- -p pubdir
-
This option changes the default user directory for
/~user/
translations from
``public_html''
to
pubdir.
- -r
-
This option forces pages besides the
``index.html''
(see the
-X
option) page to require that the Referrer: header be present and
refer to this web server, otherwise a redirect to the
``index.html''
page will be returned instead.
- -S server_software
-
This option sets the internal server version to
server_software.
- -s
-
This option forces logging to be set to stderr always.
- -t chrootdir
-
When this option is used,
bozohttpd
will chroot to the specified directory
before answering requests.
Every other path should be specified relative
to the new root, if this option is used.
Note that the current environment
is normally replaced with an empty environment with this option, unless the
-e
option is also used.
- -U username
-
This option causes
bozohttpd
to switch to the user and the groups of
username
after initialization.
This option, like
-t
above, causes
bozohttpd
to clear the environment unless the
-e
option is given.
- -u
-
This option enables the transformation of Uniform Resource Locators of
the form
/~user/
into the the directory
~user/public_html
(but see the
-p
option above).
- -v virtualroot
-
This option enables virtual hosting support.
Directories in
virtualroot
will be searched for a matching virtual host name, when parsing
the HTML request.
If a matching name is found, it will be used
as both the server's real name,
[myname],
and as the
slashdir.
- -X
-
This option enables directory indexing.
A directory index will be generated only when the default file (i.e.
index.html
normally) is not present.
- -x index
-
This option changes the default file read for directories from
``index.html''
to
index.
- -Z certificate_path privatekey_path
-
This option sets the path to the server certificate file and the private key file
in pem format. It also causes bozohttpd to start SSL mode.
Note that in
bozohttpd
versions 20040218 and prior that supported the
-C
and
-M
options, they took a single space-separated argument that was parsed.
since version 20040129, they take multiple options (2 in the case of
-C
and 4 in the case of
-M.)
INETD CONFIGURATION
As
bozohttpd
uses
inetd(8)
by default to process incoming TCP connections for HTTP requests
(but see the
-b
option),
bozohttpd
has little internal networking knowledge.
(Indeed, you can run it on the command line with little change of functionality.)
A typical
inetd.conf(5)
entry would be:
www stream tcp nowait:600 httpd /usr/pkg/libexec/bozohttpd bozohttpd /var/www
www stream tcp6 nowait:600 httpd /usr/pkg/libexec/bozohttpd bozohttpd /var/www
This would serve web pages from
/var/www
on both IPv4 and IPv6 ports.
The
:600
changes the
requests per minute to 600, up from the
inetd(8)
default of 40.
Using the
NetBSD
inetd(8),
you can provide multiple IP-address based HTTP servers by having multiple
listening ports with different configurations.
To configure set of virtual hosts, one would use an entry like:
www stream tcp nowait:600 httpd /usr/pkg/libexec/bozohttpd bozohttpd -v /var/vroot /var/www
and inside
/var/vroot
create a directory (or a symlink to a directory) with the same name as
the virtual host, for each virtual host.
Lookups for these names are done in a case-insensitive manner.
To use
bozohttpd
with PHP, one must use the
-C
option to specify a CGI handler for a particular file type.
Typically this, this will be like:
bozohttpd -C .php /usr/pkg/bin/php /var/www
NOTES
This server supports the
HTTP/0.9,
HTTP/1.0
and
HTTP/1.1
standards. The
HTTP/1.1
support is based on the Internet Draft
``draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-06'',
which has been replaced by RFC 2616 as the standard.
Support for these
protocols is very minimal and many optional features are not supported.
bozohttpd
can be compiled without CGI support (NO_CGIBIN_SUPPORT), user
transformations (NO_USER_SUPPORT), directory index support (NO_DIRINDEX_SUPPORT),
daemon mode support (NO_DAEMON_MODE), and dynamic MIME content
(NO_DYNAMIC_CONTENT), and SSL support (NO_SSL_SUPPORT) by defining the listed
macros when building
.
HTTP BASIC AUTHORISATION
bozohttpd
has support for HTTP Basic Authorisation that is excluded by default.
Compile
bozohttpd
with
``-DDO_HTPASSWD''
on the compiler command line to enable this support. It may require
linking with the crypt library, using
``-lcrypt''.
.
FILES
bozohttpd
looks for a couple of special files in directories that allow certain features
to be provided on a per-directory basis.
In addition to the
.htpasswd
used by HTTP basic authorisation,
if a
.bzdirect
file is found (contents are irrelevant)
bozohttpd
will allow direct access even with the
-r
option.
If a
.bzredirect
symbolic link is found,
bozohttpd
will perform a smart redirect to the target of this symlink.
SSL SUPPORT
bozohttpd
has support for SSLv2, SSLv3, and TLSv1 protocols that is included by
default. It requires linking with the crypto and ssl library, using
``-lcrypto -lssl''.
To disable SSL SUPPORT compile
bozohttpd
with
``-DNO_SSL_SUPPORT''
on the compiler command line.
SEE ALSO
inetd.conf(5),
inetd(8)
HISTORY
The
bozohttpd
program was first written in perl, based on another perl http server
called
``tinyhttpd''.
It was then rewritten from scratch in perl, and then once again in C.
The focus has always been simplicity and security, with minimal features
and regular code audits.
This manual documents
bozohttpd
version 20031005.
AUTHORS
bozohttpd
was written by Matthew R. Green
<mrg@eterna.com.au>.
The large list of contributors includes:
- -
Chuck Cranor
<chuck@research.att.com>
provided cgi-bin support fixes, and more
- -
Andrew Doran
<ad@netbsd.org>
provided directory indexing support
- -
Per Ekman
<pek@pdc.kth.se>
provided a fix for a minor (non-security) buffer overflow condition
- -
Zak Johnson
<zakj@nox.cx>
provided cgi-bin enhancements
- -
Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino, KAME
<itojun@iijlab.net>
provided initial IPv6 support
- -
Nicolas Jombart
<ecu@ipv42.net>
provided fixes for HTTP basic authorisation support
- -
Thomas Klausner
<wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
provided many fixes and enhancements for the man page
- -
Johnny Lam
<jlam@netbsd.org>
provided man page fixes
- -
Luke Mewburn
<lukem@netbsd.org>
provided many various fixes, including cgi-bin fixes & enhancements,
HTTP basic authorisation support and much code clean up
- -
Scott Reynolds
<scottr@netbsd.org>
provided various fixes
- -
Tyler Retzlaff
<rtr@eterna.com.au>
provided SSL support and other various fixes
- -
ISIHARA Takanori
<ishit@oak.dti.ne.jp>
provided a man page fix
- -
<xs@kittenz.org>
provided chroot and change-to-user support, and other various fixes
There are probably others I have forgotten (let me know if you care)
BUGS
bozohttpd
does not properly merge multiple HTTP protocol headers yet.