WARNING: Deprecated. Repo moved to demo-examples

acorn

Acorn Web Server Appliance, built with IncludeOS.

Live Demo: acorn2.unofficial.includeos.io (sporadically unavailable)

Features

• Easily build RESTful APIs
• Use middleware to browse and serve static content with only a few lines of code
• Optionally show real-time information about your server with an interactive dashboard

Acorn is a simple web server using a collection of libraries and extensions:

• Mana - IncludeOS Web Framework
• Bucket - Simplified in-memory database
• Butler - Middleware for serving static content
• Cookie - Cookie support
• Dashboard - Back-end support for serving IncludeOS statistics
• Director - Middleware for listing static content
• Json - JSON support

Requirements

• IncludeOS installed (together with its dependencies)
• git

Setup

To setup the service:

$ ./setup.sh

It will do the following:

• Pull the required git submodules
• Create a 2 MB FAT16 disk called memdisk.fat - which will be included into service
• Mount it on mnt/ and copy the content from disk1/ onto the disk

Take it for a spin

To build and run the service:

$ ./run.sh

It will do the following:

• Mount and update memdisk.fat with the latest content from disk1/
• make the service
• Run the service with qemu