Simple file server to serve current directory

I'm looking for a dead simple bin that I can launch up in the shell and have it serve the current directory (preferably not ..), with maybe a -p for specifying port. As it should be a development server, it should by default allow connections from localhost only, maybe with an option to specify otherwise. The simpler, the better.

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Problem courtesy of: Reactormonk

Solution python -m SimpleHTTPServer

or

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 80

if you don't want to use the default port 8000. See the docs .

Solution courtesy of: David Pope

Discussion

There is the Perl app App::HTTPThis or I have often used a tiny Mojolicious server to do this. See my blog post from a while back.

Make a file called say server.pl . Put this in it.

#!/usr/bin/env perl use Mojolicious::Lite; use Cwd; app->static->paths->[0] = getcwd; any '/' => sub { shift->render_static('index.html'); }; app->start;

Install Mojolicious: curl get.mojolicio.us | sh and then run morbo server.pl .

Should work, and you can tweak the script if you need to.

Discussion courtesy of: Joel Berger

For Node, there's http-server :

$ npm install -g http-server $ http-server Downloads -a localhost -p 8080 Starting up http-server, serving Downloads on port: 8080 Hit CTRL-C to stop the server

Python has:

Python 3 : python -m http.server 8080 Python 2 : python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

Note that these two allow all connections (not just from localhost ). Sadly, there isn't a simple way to change the address.

Discussion courtesy of: Blender

Using Twisted Web :

twistd --pidfile= -n web --path . --port 8080

--pidfile= disables the PID file. Without it a twistd.pid file will be created in the current directory. You can also use --pidfile '' .

Discussion courtesy of: Cristian Ciupitu

This recipe can be found in it's original form on Stack Over Flow .