Служба Kiwix
Kiwix-serve is a ZIM compatible Web server. With it's help you can deliver ZIM file content over your network.
Основанная на известном протоколе HTTP, служба kiwix позволяет Вам легко разделять ZIM файлы уже имеющиеся на Вашем компьютере с другими, связанными с Вашей сетью. Вы просто должны запустить службу kiwix и Ваш контент будет доступен для других через их собственный Web-браузер.
Служба Kiwix - хорошее решение, если у Вас есть сеть LAN и вы не хотите устанавливать Kiwix на всех компьютерах. Это хорошая альтернатива, если у Вас нет общего сетевого диска, с которого все могут запустить Kiwix.
Особенности
Kiwix-serve has not so many features like Kiwix, but provides the most important ones:
- Full text search engine
- Search suggestions
- Really small and efficient
- Compatible with almost all browsers
- Available on all platforms
- Available as command line executable
- Embedded in Kiwix UI
- Able to deal with one ZIM file or XML library files
Get it
On Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OSX and GNU/Linux, kiwix-serve is packaged and distributed with Kiwix. You simply need to download the Kiwix installer corresponding to your Operating System.
We also provide pre-compiled binaries for ARM GNU/Linux.
For other systems, you will have to download and compile kiwix-serve source code on your own.
Use it
Kiwix-serve is directly available in the Kiwix menu "Tools > server", but for people wanting to use it from the command line, here is how it works.
Prerequisites:
- kiwix-serve binary, available in the Kiwix application directory
- A ZIM file or a library file (you can use the library.xml file available in your Kiwix user profile).
Unix command line (just use kiwix-serve.exe on Microsoft Windows) example to start kiwix-serve with a XML library file:
kiwix-serve --library ~/.www.kiwix.org/kiwix/efrnsupg.default/library.xml
Unix command line example to start kiwix-serve with a ZIM file:
kiwix-serve --port=8080 wikipedia.zim
One time kiwix-serve is started, everybody, who has access to this computer per network, will be able to connect to it. You need to retrieve the IP (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) of your computer and remember the port (per default 80) you have used and then people will only have to type in their browser address bar:
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80/
Опции
Kiwix-serve provides a few options:
- --port=PORT to specify the port you want to open for listening (per default 80)
- --index=foobar.ix to specify an fulltext index directory
- --daemon to execute the software in background
- --attachToProcess=PID to attach kiwix-serve process to other process
- --verbose to get a few logs
You can also run kiwix-serve without index, but in this case you won't have access to the fulltext search engine.