zipserve

zipserve

This program is an HTTP server taking its content from a zip file.

Usage

zipserve [options] ZIPFILE

The options are:
      --port int        Port Number (default 8080)
      --prefix string   Path prefix

ZIPFILE is the archive containing the web site (usually a .wzip file)

How to build the archive

The archive is a simple zip file. You can typically build it using the zip command :

cd public && zip -FS -r ../my1-website.wzip . && cd ..

Note that I chose the extension .wzip to make is possible to associate the extension with .wzip with zipserve

Note that the archive is made at the root of the content, but sometimes the URL of the site has a given prefix. If the site is hosted on GitHub pages, the URL is https://<GROUP-NAME>.github.io/<PROJECT-NAME>/ and the offline version will not work as expected if /<PROJECT-NAME>/ is not in the URL.

The zipserve program has the --prefix option that you can use to provide the required prefix, but you can also provide the correct prefix directly in the archive.

For this, just add the file /.prefix with one line containing the correct prefix. For example :

/my-project-name/

Build the zip with the file /.prefix and zipserve will use the correct default.