This is awesome, I've wanted a way to package a webapp for distribution locally and I think this + sqlite would be a perfect combination.
Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server
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Re: Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server
#92Just make sure you don't have another server running on :8080. I had syncthing running and kept getting some error whenever I tried to run redbean. The error didn't make much sense, but eventually I realised that this was the casue of the error. I'm really impressed how portable this is. The only improvement I can see is if it auto-opened your browser to :8080. That way it would be easy to distribute the binary and h…
Let's say we are able to do this. Would we have any security concerns to be addressed?
Re: Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server
#93Does it work with this level of bare metal
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I think the Zig community/BDFL might appreciate adding an APE target "os" to their buildchain (LLVM-based); that could be a match made in heaven!
Author here. I've been chatting with the Zig BDFL on Twitter recently about contributing APE support and he's been super supportive so far. It's going to be a nontrivial undertaking but would certainly be rewarding for everyone if we can make it happen.
Oh wow!!!!!!!
Re: Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server
#95Is it a "fat" binary?
AFAIK a fat binary is just a binary with all dependencies included. It would still be compiled for a specific platform. The magic part about this is that it's a single file compiled once that can be run on most platforms. And it also adheres to the format of a zip file, so you can add, modify and remove assets as you please inside the actual file, post compilation.
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Does it work on cheap Xen vps? Because "/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register" looks absent from mine.
That's strange. I'd recommend filing an issue. Any details on how I can reproduce the error will be helpful, even if I have to temporarily rent one of those things. I'm on a mission to make binaries portable.
FWIW, it works on QubesOS, which is Xen based. Though it works only in my Fedora and Debian VMs, but not on my Archlinux-based one.
I think that's because I have WINE installed in the Archlinux VMs, since that's what gets started when I run ./redbean.com. But even after I remove WINE, it still doesn't work, I probably have to restart (i.e. remove WINE from the TemplateVM, not the AppVM) for it to work.
In any case, incredible work, I am in awe!
Re: Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server
#97Am I the only one having issues trying to get this working? The webserver starts just fine, but once I add the index.html with zip as in the example, it stops working. This is on Mac 10.15, CentOS 8 and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Centos: [centos@test ~]$ ./redbean.com -vv error: Uncaught SIGSEGV on test.novalocal ./redbean.com EINVAL/err=22/errno:2/GetLastError:0 Linux test.novalocal 4.18.0-240.10.1.el8_3.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Ja…
Yeah another killed: 9 on Mac BigSur.
Could you export the tool in a way that we don't have to zip new files into it? Instead we would have to gcc the whole thing once and be done with it.
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This is something like a "fat binary" with some magic in the header that allows it to run out of the box on Windows and several different UNIXes, a bit like those sneaky shell scripts that run on several platforms[0]. It still needs to include some native code for each of the platforms inside the compiled binary, so it's perhaps better to see it as a slick packaging/distribution solution for C programmers than a tota…
Appreciate the response. So it's a bigger win for C devs specifically. I am a C# dev so I am trying to understand what opportunities this project unlocks.
Why you have pigeonholed yourself? "X Dev" is so cliche. You can compile C# to x86 machine code - this project has less to do with C and more to do with PE format and syscall tables. It means that it's language agnostic but not standard library agnostic.
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#99If you want to learn more how these things work I'd highly suggest going through the PoC||GTFO archive (https://github.com/angea/pocorgtfo/blob/master/README.md) and check out entries by Ange Albertini or entries named like "This ZIP is also a PDF".
Re: Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server
#100Caddy is a single file web server as well :) https://caddyserver.com/ Admittedly they solve different usecases, where Redbean seems to want to serve a whole static site as a single file, which isn't currently possible with Caddy, (but you can run `caddy file-server` to serve the current directory as a static site), but it may become possible in the future with Golang's new embed package https://golang.org/pkg/embed/
Is that smile at the end of your first sentence meant to be condescending?
You are affiliated with Caddy and ought to mention that when you promote your own software. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16687686
This is not a competition. Caddy is not even in the same realm as Redbean.
Redbean is a multi-platform binary that doubles as a ZIP. It's roughly 1500 times smaller than Caddy too.
> different usecases
Right. :)