samirtalwar / one-track-web-server

Sometimes you just need a web server that runs the same command over and over again.

One Track Web Server

Sometimes you just need a web server that runs the same command over and over again.

I wrote this as a server to dump log files to a web page so that people could iterate quickly. It's been generalised a bit.

Running

Simple enough. Just use Docker:

docker run -p <port>:8080 -it samirtalwar/one-track-web-server <your command>

For example, if you want to serve up a file located at /my/directory/file:

docker run -v /my/directory/file:/data/file -p 80:8080 -it samirtalwar/one-track-web-server cat /data/file

Or generate a random number:

docker run --rm -it -p 80:8080 samirtalwar/one-track-web-server python -c 'import random; print("Your random number is {}!".format(random.randint(1, 100)))'

Then just head to http://localhost/ to see the results.

Ports

The default port is 8080. You can override it with the -p switch or the PORT environment variable. (The switch takes precedence.)

Building

make build

Testing

make check