A simple web server built with Rust and Actix-web that serves an HTML page on localhost with configurable port.

• 🚀 Built with Rust and Actix-web framework
• 🌐 Serves a beautiful HTML page with modern styling
• ⚙️ Configurable port via environment variable
• 📊 JSON API endpoint for status information
• 📁 Static file serving capability
• 🔧 Standard Rust build process

• Rust (latest stable version)
• Cargo (comes with Rust)

cargo build

Default port (8080):

cargo run

Custom port:

PORT=3000 cargo run

• Main page: http://localhost:8080 (or your custom port)
• Status API: http://localhost:8080/api/status
• Static files: http://localhost:8080/static/

cargo build --release

./target/release/example-rust-web

PORT=9000 ./target/release/example-rust-web

To cross-compile for a different architecture, first install the target with rustup, then build with cargo build --target:

cargo build --release --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

cargo build --release --target aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu

The resulting binary will be in target/<target-triple>/release/.

example-rust/
├── Cargo.toml          # Project dependencies and metadata
├── src/
│   └── main.rs         # Main application code
├── static/             # Static files directory (optional)
└── README.md           # This file

• GET / - Serves the main HTML page
• GET /api/status - Returns JSON status information
• GET /static/* - Serves static files from the static directory

• PORT - Server port (default: 8080)

• actix-web - Web framework
• actix-files - Static file serving
• serde - Serialization/deserialization
• tokio - Async runtime
• chrono - Date and time utilities
• env_logger - Logging

This is an example project for educational purposes.