mikaeldui/ferron

Ferron - a fast, memory-safe web server written in Rust

Features

• High performance - built with Rust’s async capabilities for optimal speed.
• Memory-safe - built with Rust, which is a programming language offering memory safety.
• Extensibility - modular architecture for easy customization.
• Secure - focus on robust security practices and safe concurrency.

Components

Ferron consists of multiple components:

• ferron: The main web server.
• ferron-passwd: A tool for generating user entries with hashed passwords, which can be copied into the web server's configuration file.

Building Ferron from source

You can clone the repository and explore the existing code:

git clone https://github.com/ferronweb/ferron.git
cd ferron

You can then build and run the web server using Cargo:

cargo build -r
cargo run -r --bin ferron

You can also use Ferron Forge to build the web server. Ferron Forge outputs a ZIP archive that can be used by the Ferron installer.

Server configuration

You can check the Ferron documentation to see configuration properties used by Ferron.

Contributing

See Ferron contribution page for details.

License

Ferron is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.