py-server

This project is a multithreaded TCP file server. A file server is any type of server that recives requests and serves files. Multithreading has been used to ensure multiple clients can connect at the same time. Good coding practices have been adhered to.

This Project tries to mimic some of nginx/apache functionality, but it is too "simple" for it to do so. It also tries to use HTTP-like syntax to communicate between server and client

Steps For running the project

It is preferable to use Linux OS for running this project

1. First, initialize a new virtualenv by running python -m venv lab_env
2. in the terminal, run activate if you are on powershell
   • If you are on bash/zsh, cd lab_env, then run source bin/activate
3. run pip install -r requirements.txt
4. if you are on linux, give the run script proper permissions by running chmod 777 run.py
   • If you are on windows, execute the script in an with admin privileges and allow firewall bypass
5. To run the TCP server, execute python run.py server
6. To run the TCP client, execute python run.py client

It should be noted that internal/files houses the files served by the server, while internal/client_files houses the files requested by the client

Libraries Used

1. socket for TCP socket utilities
2. subprocess for executing processes
3. os for file and dir manipulation
4. sys for handling system events gracefully
5. json for data serialization across sockets
6. rich for good terminal UI

Done by Abdulrahman Idrees - 202200729