If you use Ubuntu precise you can install Go environment with

sudo apt-get install golang

If golang is not contained in your package management system, follow the instruction in golang.org.

Install golang websocket library.

sudo go get code.google.com/p/go.net/websocket

Websocket library will be installed in the default directory of go packages (/usr/lib/go/pkg). If you don't want to (or can not) install, you can change the install directory with GOPATH environment variable.

git clone https://github.com/yunabe/htmlfwd.git
cd htmlfwd/server
make

Before running htmlfwd server, you need to create ~/.htmlfwdrc to configure port numbers.

cat > ~/.htmlfwdrc <<EOF
browser_port=8080
command_port=9999
keep_alive_interval=60
EOF

./htmlfwd