OPTIONS

-b

Enables daemon mode, where bozohttpd detaches from the current terminal, running in the background and servicing HTTP requests.

-C suffix cgihandler

Adds a new CGI handler program for a particular 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

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/<scriptname> where <scriptname> 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

Causes bozohttpd to not clear the environment when used with either the -t or -U options.

-f

Stops the -b flag from bozohttpd detaching from the tty and going into the background.

-H

Causes directory index mode to hide files and directories that start with a period, except for ... Also see -X.

-I port

Causes bozohttpd to use port instead of the default “http” port. When used with the -b option, it changes the bound port. Otherwise it forces redirections to use this port instead of the value obtained via getsockname(2).

-i address

Causes address to be 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). Only the last -i option is used. This option is only valid with the -b option.

-L prefix script

Adds a new Lua script for a particular prefix. The prefix should be an arbitrary text, and the script should be a full path to a Lua script. Multiple -L options may be passed. A separate Lua state is created for each prefix. The Lua script can register callbacks using the httpd.register_handler('<name>', function) Lua function, which will trigger the execution of the Lua function function when a URL in the form http://<hostname>/<prefix>/<name> is being accessed. The function is passed three tables as arguments, the server environment, the request headers, and the decoded query string plus any data that was send as application/x-www-form-urlencoded.

-M suffix type encoding encoding11

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

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 pidfile

Causes bozohttpd to create a pid file in pidfile when run in daemon mode with the -b option.

-p pubdir

Changes the default user directory for /~user/ translations from “public_html” to pubdir.

-r

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

Sets the internal server version to server_software.

-s

Forces logging to be set to stderr always.

-t chrootdir

Makes bozohttpd 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

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

Enables the transformation of Uniform Resource Locators of the form /~user/ into the directory ~user/public_html (but see the -p option above).

-V

Sets the default virtual host directory to slashdir. If no directory exists in virtualroot for the request, then slashdir will be used. The default behaviour is to return 404 (Not Found.)

-v virtualroot

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. See the EXAMPLES section for an example of using this option.

-X

Enables directory indexing. A directory index will be generated only when the default file (i.e. index.html normally) is not present.

-x index

Changes the default file read for directories from “index.html” to index.

-Z certificate_path privatekey_path

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 20031005 and prior that supported the -C and -M options, they took a single space-separated argument that was parsed. since version 20040828, they take multiple options (2 in the case of -C and 4 in the case of -M.)

INETD CONFIGURATION

http stream tcp  nowait:600 _httpd /usr/libexec/httpd httpd /var/www 
http stream tcp6 nowait:600 _httpd /usr/libexec/httpd httpd /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.

NOTES

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), dynamic MIME content (NO_DYNAMIC_CONTENT), Lua suport (NO_LUA_SUPPORT), and SSL support (NO_SSL_SUPPORT) by defining the listed macros when building bozohttpd.

HTTP BASIC AUTHORISATION

Note: This does not recursively protect any sub-directories.

The .htpasswd file contains lines delimited with a colon containing usernames and passwords hashed with crypt(3), for example:

heather:$1$pZWI4tH/$DzDPl63i6VvVRv2lJNV7k1 
jeremy:A.xewbx2DpQ8I

On NetBSD, the pwhash(1) utility may be used to generate hashed passwords.

While bozohttpd distributed with NetBSD has support for HTTP Basic Authorisation enabled by default, in the portable distribution it is excluded. Compile bozohttpd with “-DDO_HTPASSWD” on the compiler command line to enable this support. It may require linking with the crypt library, using “-lcrypt”.

SSL SUPPORT

COMPRESSION