It's a really nice tool, and recently I had an opportunity to improve TinyWeb server a little bit, so want to share it with you. Obviously this is still not such a full-featured server as Wamp, but it is tiny, handy and can be a significant part of your "pocket hacking toolset". How to use it for your own benefit - I would leave it to you. :-) So what functionality I added
Looks good? Och, believe me, it is. Let's see what this little beast can do for us, but "first things first": see what you may download: Download binaries:
Download source code:
Note that author (Maxim Masiutin) kindly published the source code of standard TinyWeb server only (without SSL support), so this is the only version which is modified by me now (hence supports PHP). Running the little daemonOk, in our first example we will be using the version of the server with PHP support. Download it and unzip to any folder in you PC (you already did it, yea?). Now run the file "run_web_server.exe". Important: you must run it as Administrator. Same application may be used for both versions of TinyWeb: with and without SSL support. Once you have it running - everything should be self-explanatory (not much to configure really):
If you will be using the TinyWeb version with SSL - you would see the following info at the bottom:
Once we have the port chosen: press [RUN] button. Note that LPORT field is grayed now and button [RUN] is also disabled. Our server is running!
Now you can close this application completely, the TinyWeb server would be happily running in the background. How to stop the server? Oh I don't know, try to guess... ;-) Is it really working?Ok, the server is running, now let's browse the structure of our folders: wwwroot
| index.htm
| index.php
| login.htm
|
+---cgi-bin
login.exe
shell.php
test.cmd
test.php
test.pl
Those files will be available "on-line" under following URLs: http://localhost:81/index.htm http://localhost:81/index.php http://localhost:81/login.htm http://localhost:81/cgi-bin/shell.php http://localhost:81/cgi-bin/test.cmd http://localhost:81/cgi-bin/test.php http://localhost:81/cgi-bin/test.pl <-- to run this you must have Perl installed Try to open it in your browser and see what would happen. :-) Actually any console program with stdIN and stdOUT may be easily handled by TinyWeb server (which is really handy). Imagine that you have the following batch file:
When you navigate to the following URL: http://localhost:81/cgi-bin/test.cmd you can see in your browser something like this:
Nice, isn't it! :-) Remember one important thing: PHP is supported in \wwwroot (also in any nested subfolder inside). CGI is handled only in \wwwroot\cgi-bin folder and any subfolders. Couple of words about TinyWeb with SSL supportThis is the original version of TinyWeb binary with SSL support, compiled by Maxim Masiutin. Source code unfortunately is not available, so I may not make necessary modifications, hence PHP is not supported. Sad but true. Anyway you may download it from here along with sample SSL certificates (and of course with run_web_server.exe) and in fully portable form. So again - nothing to configure. Just unzip, and run!
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