Zy

Minimal and blazing-fast file server. For real, this time.

Features

Single Page Application support
Partial responses (Range support)
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
Automatic HTTP compression (Zstd, Gzip, Brotli, Deflate)
Dynamic cache control (ETag, Last-Modified, Cache-Control)
Auto-served index.html files
Sane defaults
- No access to hidden files
- No access to content outside the base directory
- No access to symbolic links outside the base directory

Installation

You can download any of the pre-compiled binaries from the releases page.

Or if you already have Rust installed, you can install it with cargo:

Please, note that the minimum supported version of Rust for zy is 1.59.0.

Also, that the binary may be bigger than expected because it contains debug symbols. This is intentional. To remove debug symbols and therefore reduce the file size, you can instead run it with the --profile slim or simply just run strip on it.

console cargo install zy

Alternatively, you can also build the latest version of zy directly from GitHub.

console cargo install --git https://github.com/miraclx/zy.git

Usage

console zy

This will start serving your current directory on http://localhost:3000 by default.

...you can also specify a different port or base directory:

console zy /path/to/serve

...or perhaps different addresses:

console zy -l 5000 -l 127.0.0.1:8080 -l 192.168.1.25

Configuration

You can run zy --help to see all available options.

```console $ zy --help Zy 0.2.0 Minimal and blazing-fast file server.

USAGE: zy [OPTIONS] [DIR]

ARGS:

Directory to serve [default: .]

OPTIONS: -l, --listen Sets the address to listen on (repeatable) [default: 127.0.0.1:3000] Valid: 3000, 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.1:3000 [env: PORT] -s, --spa Run as a Single Page Application -i, --index Index file to serve from the base directory [default: index.html] --404 404 file to serve from the base directory [default: 404.html] -c, --cache Cache time (max-age) [default: 1h] Valid: 10 for 10 seconds, 1h, 1year 6months --no-cors Disable Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) -a, --all Serve hidden files -f, --follow-links Follow symlinks outside of the base directory (unsafe) -v, --verbose Be verbose -x, --confirm-exit Require confirmation before exiting on Ctrl+C -Z, --anonymize Hide the Server and X-Powered-By headers [alias: --anon] -h, --help Print help information -V, --version Print version information ```

Credits

Zy was originally inspired by sfz, serve and http-server. It is written in Rust and uses actix as the web framework.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as below, without any additional terms or conditions.

License

Licensed under either of

Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.