ESP-IDF style web_server_uploader_esp8266 app (example)

Uploading OTA image file and any html files.

Note

This example uses a modified esp_http_server component to implement the match uri

/index.html, /favicon.ico, /style.css and scripts.js can be overridden by uploading files with same names.

Tested on Windows 10 and Linux Debian

Usage

• Get toolchain and ESP8266_RTOS_SDK from espressif web site - https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp8266-rtos-sdk/en/latest/get-started/index.html

• git clone https://github.com/slacky1965/web_server_uploader_esp8266.git

• cd web_server_uploader_esp8266

• Open the project configuration menu make menuconfig

• Go to Serial flasher config and set Default serial port

• Go to Example Connection Configuration

  1. WIFI SSID: WIFI network to which your PC is also connected to.
  2. WIFI Password: WIFI password

• make all for compiling applications

• make flash to download the app

• make storage to create spiffs partition and then download it

• In order to test the file server demo

  1. run make monitor and note down the IP assigned to your ESP module. The default port is 80
  2. test the example interactively on a web browser (assuming IP is 192.168.100.40):
     • open path http://192.168.100.40 or http://192.168.100.40/index.html to see an HTML web page with upload menu
     • use the file upload form on the webpage to select and upload a file to the server
     • uploading a firmware file or html files (*.html, *.css, *.js or other)

• make cleanall - default clean and clean mkspiffs