An extremely simple base server in golang for jump-starting an HTTP API endpoint microservice project. Secure, light-weight and can be built for any platform to a single executable!
At this point, all served code/data should be contained within main.go (or at least called from there). The inability to serve static HTML files (and other files) is intentional; if you want to take on that security risk, go use Apache or Nginx.
First, make sure you have Go installed on your server or build machine: Go installation steps
Then just build and run!
Build:
$ go build
Run on Linux:
$ ./server
Run on Windows:
$ server.exe
Download a prebuilt executable:
Linux pre-built executable download
Windows pre-built executable download
Download the .example.settings.ini file
Rename the file to settings.ini and modify the settings as you see fit
Move the settings.ini file to the same directory as the pre-built executable
Run the executable (you may need to chmod +x the executable first if you're on Linux)