Update webserver-ip.sh

2025-08-15 19:17:53 +00:00
parent e6b7403b7b
commit 6d13545a85
1 changed files with 12 additions and 4 deletions
--- a/webserver-ip.sh
+++ b/webserver-ip.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,14 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -euo pipefail

-# Make a minimal HTML page
+# Install netcat if missing
+if ! command -v nc >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+    echo "[INFO] Installing netcat..."
+    sudo apt update
+    sudo apt install -y netcat-openbsd
+fi
+
+# Create HTML page with hostname + IP
 IP="$(hostname -I | awk '{print $1}')"
 cat > index.html <<EOF
 <html>
@@ -13,11 +20,12 @@ cat > index.html <<EOF
 </html>
 EOF

-# Serve forever on port 80 with netcat
-echo "Serving on http://$IP (Ctrl+C to stop)"
+echo "[INFO] Serving on http://$IP (Ctrl+C to stop)"
+
+# Serve forever using netcat
 while true; do
  { 
    echo -e "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Type: text/html\r\n\r\n"; 
    cat index.html; 
-  } | nc -l -p 8080 -q 1
+  } | sudo nc -l -p 8080 -q 1
 done