Microscope is a simple static web server built using cowboy. It’s purpose is to provide an easy way to test your static websites.

Getting started

Use Microscope.start_link/3 to start the web server.

# Example:
iex> {:ok, pid} = Microscope.start_link("/home/user/www", "/base", 8080)

Then the HTTP server will start listening on port 8080, and when the user requests /base/path/to/file, the server will respond with the contents of /home/user/www/path/to/file on your system.

Microscope can also handle directory requests. In this case, the web server will look for index.html or index.htm under the specified directory and serve the file if found.