lannet

Lannet creates a little web on the LAN. It runs a fileserver daemon in the background, and hosts a homepage that links to other lannet servers on the same network.

Here's the view of the homepage, with one other lannet server on the network:

By default the server serves files from the ~/lannet folder, but any root path can be set.

I see lannet as being useful in a classroom environment. Many students are on the same LAN, developing websites, and with lannet they have immediate access to a web server with no config, and can easily check out the websites of their classmates at any time, with no need to type in IP addresses.

lannet - a little web on the LAN

Commands:

lannet
    Start the daemon if needed, and open the homepage.

lannet version
    View the version information of lannet.

lannet stop
    Stop the daemon if running

lannet root my/path
    Change the webserver root from ~/lannet to my/path

lannet name [new-name]
    View the current name, or set it to a new one

Download binaries for lannet on releases page.

Building from source

Requirements:

• Go 1.16 or later
• GNU Make

Please note the Makefile does not intend to support Windows, and so there may be issues.

git clone https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/lannet
cd lannet
# git checkout v1.2.3 # Optionally pin to a specific version instead of the latest commit
make # Might be gmake on macOS
sudo make install # If you want to install the binary for all users

Because you installed with the Makefile, running lannet version will tell you exactly what commit the binary was built from.

License

Lannet is licensed under the GPLv3. See LICENSE for details.