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- Thu May 14, 2015 6:04 pm #17410 I've seen the example webserver, but all the returned html/text has been hardcoded. Is there any way to serve separate webpages?

- Thu May 14, 2015 7:21 pm #17411 You should check out the forum post http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=376. The ESP-HTTPD Project supports serving static pages. You will need to use the SDK.

But IMHO, it is better to use a separate server for webpages, the micro-controller is just too limited in resources to serve up complex or large pages.

That is what hosting packages are for. Very inexpensive. And if you don't need a personalized domain name, free options are available. You would need to reference the pages' images/media residing on a separate server anyway as you would soon run out of flash memory to store the page's dependent files if you try do serve up everything on an ESP8266.

Good luck!

- Thu May 14, 2015 11:47 pm #17423 I'm not trying to serve excessively large or complex pages, just trying to keep the stuff the webserver serves separate from the webserver itself.

- Fri May 15, 2015 5:30 pm #17510 You should be able to serve up a page using lua NodeMCU something like (listening on port 8266):

Code: Select allsrv=net.createServer(net.TCP)
srv:listen(8266,function(conn)
  conn:on("receive", function(client,request)
   .
   .
   .
  file.open("mypage.htm","r")
  while true do       
    str = file.readline()
   if str == nil then break end
   client:send(buf);
  end
  file.close()
  end)
end)


Create your html file (mypage.htm) and load it to the ESP8266 the same way init.lua is loaded.

I am not a big fan of NodeMCU since it does not leave much memory for your code and it leaks memory like a sieve.

Hope this gives you an idea how to do it. Good luck with your project.