🌐 NoobNet Lighweight C Web Server

A lightweight, efficient, and extensible web server written in C. Supports static file serving, PHP execution, concurrent clients, and real-time logging.

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🚀 Features

• 📂 Static file serving: Supports .html, .css, .js, .jpg, .png, .mp4, .pdf, etc.
• 👥 Multi-client handling: Uses POSIX threads (pthread) for concurrency.
• 🔁 HTTP/1.1 Keep-Alive: Keeps connections alive for multiple requests per client.
• ⚙️ PHP script execution: Handles .php files using system-installed PHP interpreter.
• ⚡ High performance: Uses sendfile() for kernel-level, zero-copy static file delivery.
• 🪵 Real-time logging: Logs all activity to both terminal and logs/server.log.
• 🧾 Detailed request logs: Timestamp, log level, IP, request path, thread ID, and status.
• ❌ Error handling: Sends 404 and 405 HTTP responses where appropriate.
• 🔐 Path traversal protection: Blocks unsafe URL paths like ../.

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📦 Requirements

• GCC (or compatible compiler)
• POSIX-compliant system (Linux recommended)
• PHP installed and available via php command

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🔧 How It Works

1. Server starts on port 8080 and listens for incoming connections.
2. Each client gets its own thread for handling requests.
3. Request is parsed — only GET is supported.
4. If file is .php, server uses popen() to execute PHP and return output.
5. For static files, server sends file directly using sendfile() for speed.
6. Server logs each interaction with client.

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🖥️ How to Run

make
./server

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🌐 Accessing the Server

Once the server is running, open your browser and go to: http://localhost:8080/