PagesServer/README.md

Pages Server

PagesServer is a very lightweight static web server that offer two main features :

• Serve static content
• Allow easy update of the whole website from a CI/CD system through a POST request, protected by a token & by IP filtering.

This project has been written in Rust. It is based on the Actix framework.

Publishing / updating website

Make a

• POST request on http://<website>/_mgmt/replace_files.
• Body:
  • Multipart / Form-data body
  • One field: file that contains a TAR archive of the website to publish
• Headers:
  • Token (mandatory) : contains the push token that allow to post files
  • BaseURI (optional) : defines the directory inside the tar archive to extract to storage directory

Try it

docker run --rm -ti -p 8000:8000 -v $(pwd)/storage:/srv/web --env UPDATE_TOKEN=CHANGEME pierre42100/pages_server