staticserve

Staticserve

Simple web server in Go

Usage:

./staticserve -d=/var/www/html -p=8080

Point your browser at http://hostname:8080

HTML5Mode

When the -html5mode flag is supplied, the web server will return the contents of the root path (i.e. index.html) whenever:

• a 404 error occurs
• the path is not a file (i.e. does not have a filename extension)

This allows JS frameworks such as AngularJS to use HTML5 history API for a better user experience. One caveat is the case where you really do want a 404 to be returned (e.g. for SEO). In this case the -404Path flag can be supplied which specifies a path that will generate a hard 404 error e.g. -404Path=/404.html. The AngularJS app can then point to this path for any URLs that need a hard 404 (e.g. for SEO purposes)