Tiger

Tiger is a really fast and powerful web server written purely in C.

Getting Started

First download the source code and compile it.

git clone https://codeberg.com/kevidryon2/Tiger.git
cd Tiger
mkdir build
make

Since Tiger only consists of less than 1K lines of code, it is really fast to compile; by default, it will compile for the x86 architecture, but if you want to compile for another architecture (ARM32, ARM64, or Risc-V) just specify one of the following arguments to make: arm, arm64, riscv.

If you want to compile multiple architectures at once, choose between the following arguments: x86-arch, arm-arch, aarch64, riscv-arch.

Then, create Tiger's directory structure and copy Tiger to it; in this example, we'll be using the /srv directory, but you can use any directory you want.

mkdir -p /srv/{public,cache,scripts,bin}
cp build/tiger-*_dynamic /src/bin

Lastly, start Tiger.

cd /srv/bin
export TIGER_PATH=..
./tiger

Command-line arguments

You can specify a number of command-line arguments to disable certain features; like tar, command-line options are specified in a single argument:

• -n: Disable using the cache directory.
• -a: Do not redirect to index.html, or index.php when present.
• -e: Disable error pages.