simple-cgi-server

README

simple-cgi-server

This Go program is a simple CGI server to host legacy CGI scripts. This server is intended to be running behind a reverse proxy or loadbalancer, like traefik.

Dependencies

The following awesome Go libraries are dependencies:

• https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus
• https://github.com/spf13/viper

Installation

You basically have two options to install this Go program package:

1. If you have Go installed and configured on your PATH, just do the following go get inside your GOPATH to get the latest version:

go get -u github.com/mback2k/simple-cgi-server

1. If you do not have Go installed and just want to use a released binary, then you can just go ahead and download a pre-compiled Linux amd64 binary from the Github releases.

Finally put the simple-cgi-server binary onto your PATH and make sure it is executable.

Configuration

The following YAML file is an example configuration to serve Python scripts:

Address: "localhost:8080"
HandlerList:
  - FileExt: .py
    Handler: python
Logging:
  Level: info

Save this file in one of the following locations and run ./simple-cgi-server:

• /etc/simple-cgi-server/simple-cgi-server.yaml
• $HOME/.simple-cgi-server.yaml
• $PWD/simple-cgi-server.yaml

License

Copyright (C) 2019 Marc Hoersken info@marc-hoersken.de

This software is licensed as described in the file LICENSE, which you should have received as part of this software distribution.

All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.