darkhttpd vs ganesh

darkhttpd

When you need a web server in a hurry. (by emikulic)

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unix4lyfe.org

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ganesh

A web framework for Bash (by guigo2k)

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darkhttpd		ganesh
	Project
11	Mentions	1
986	Stars	16
-	Growth	-
7.7	Activity	10.0
29 days ago	Latest Commit	almost 5 years ago
C	Language	HTML
ISC License	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

darkhttpd

Posts with mentions or reviews of darkhttpd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-12.

A Tiny Docker image to serve static websites
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2022
Pure Bash lightweight web server
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2021
How to use fail2ban with darkhttpd behind stunnel?
1 project | /r/selfhosted | 9 Oct 2021

I'm running darkhttpd with basic authentication listening on localhost, and stunnel routes https traffic to darkhttpd.
Developers fix multitude of vulnerabilities in Apache HTTP Server
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Sep 2021
How do i stream torrents on my pc to my phone
1 project | /r/animepiracy | 5 Aug 2021

https://github.com/emikulic/darkhttpd Start the http server in the directory containing the anime and stream it on your phone via web browser.
Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C-code file by the author of SQLite
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jun 2021
An HTTP server in a single .c file
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 2 Apr 2021

1 project | /r/hackernews | 2 Apr 2021

12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Apr 2021
Blog is now hosted on a GPS/LTE modem
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Apr 2021

Looks like darkhttpd's website: https://unix4lyfe.org/darkhttpd/ is NOT hosted on a GPS/LTE modem and has been hugged to death.

ganesh

Posts with mentions or reviews of ganesh. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-22.

Pure Bash lightweight web server
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing darkhttpd and ganesh you can also consider the following projects:

Nginx - An official read-only mirror of http://hg.nginx.org/nginx/ which is updated hourly. Pull requests on GitHub cannot be accepted and will be automatically closed. The proper way to submit changes to nginx is via the nginx development mailing list, see http://nginx.org/en/docs/contributing_changes.html

balls - Bash on Balls

cosmopolitan - build-once run-anywhere c library

sherver - Pure Bash lightweight web server.

binserve - A fast production-ready static web server with TLS (HTTPS), routing, hot reloading, caching, templating, and security in a single-binary you can set up with zero code.

9front-test - test repo for 9front git conversion

Caddy - Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

winner - Winners of the International Obfuscated C Code Contest

open_iot - ocpu

uip - The historical uIP sources

http - A simple multi-threaded HTTP/1.0-ish file server. Single file, ~250 LOC.

FreeRTOS-Kernel - FreeRTOS kernel files only, submoduled into https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS and various other repos.