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I am working on a college project in which I want to embed a http web server on a TIVA launchpad eval board. I have been looking through the internet for any guidance on the subject but the information seems to be scarce. I have managed to try a custom mongoose server on a linux machine. During this process I served a single html file. I noticed that I have to supply a http port and directory to which my html file resided. To my understanding, ports are provided by a an OS and a directory can be implemented with a file system.

Do I need to use an operating system on this project in case I decide to go with mongoose web server? How do I implement the file system?

I also found another guide to use uIP. This guide was implemented with freeRTOS. I have a working knowledge of freeRTOS. Can I use uIP with no OS?

Kindly shed some light on the subject or point me towards the right direction.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Choosing a different Stack may help... \$\endgroup\$
    – Solar Mike
    Dec 8, 2018 at 17:18
  • \$\begingroup\$ There don't have to be any file systems involved. A web server does nothing more than receiving lines of text through a TCP socket and sending back lines of text through that same TCP socket in response. Please check out how simple the HTTP protocol works before anything else. \$\endgroup\$
    – Janka
    Dec 8, 2018 at 17:21
  • \$\begingroup\$ UDP polling to port 80 can be like a dumb terminal but then without IRQ and no embedded boot OS, simple tasks are made hard. So uIP (micro IP) and lwIP (lightweight IP) are both candidates that I think are BSD derived \$\endgroup\$
    – Tony Stewart EE75
    Dec 8, 2018 at 17:23
  • \$\begingroup\$ Do you really want such a primitive interface prone to DoS attacks and IoT security issues? Scarce? then you are looking for the wrong key words. try Contiki OS \$\endgroup\$
    – Tony Stewart EE75
    Dec 8, 2018 at 17:35
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Rufusy: Please capitalise proper names and initialisations correctly for clarity. There is an edit link under your post. \$\endgroup\$
    – Transistor
    Dec 8, 2018 at 22:20

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There is a reference demo with a web server for this dev kit http://www.ti.com/tool/EK-TM4C1294XL

The software pack you have to look for is SW-EK-TM4C1294XL.

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