The primary features of the server have been added so expect less activity. I will still be maintaining this project and I will still be doing occasional releases for things such as bug fixes, QoL improvements, small features or minor adjustments.

Vanilla-RustLang-Server (VRS) 🦀

VRS is a simple, minimal, free and open source static web server written in Rust which uses absolutely no dependencies and revolves around Rust's std::net standard library module.

General Information

VRS features

• ~1k SLOC; minimal
• Standalone, small and statically-linked binary after compilation with all of its configuration done at compile-time
• Easy-to-understand usage and configuration instructions
• Multithreading
• Singlethreading
• CORS (methods only, origins soon)
• Dockerfiles (Debian & Alpine)
• Customizable HTTP responses (200, 400 & 404, 405...)
• Guarantee to compile on all platforms (recommended: Linux or BSD)
• Easy customizability via its configuration file
• Security headers out of the box (origin attacks, iframe attacks, clickjacking etc)
• HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 standard protocol versions
• Basic systemd service
• Filesystem caching for already requested documents
• Logging (singlethread only)

What is a static web server?

A static web server is a kind of web server which only serves static content. This includes HTML, CSS and JS. Static web servers do not have support for doing back-end business logic or interacting with databases out of the box.

Example use cases of VRS

• A portfolio which is mostly HTML & CSS and a little bit of JS
• A small wikipedia

Example use cases VRS is NOT suitable for

• A blog site
• A social media website
• A bank system
• SpaceX clone

License

VRS is licensed under either MIT or Apache 2.0 at your option.

When to use VRS?

You may consider using this piece of software if you meet any of the following criteria:

• You are looking for a simple, reliable static web server
• You do not like unnecessary bloat for simple stuff
• You are trying to repurpose ancient hardware to host a server and you do not want to wait for long compilation times
• You need any of the features mentioned in the "VRS features" section

Installation

Installations instructions can be found here.