StevenBlack/web-servers.md

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Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http server in your current directory. Use this power wisely.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

Python 3.x

$ python -m http.server 8000

Python Twisted

Depends on Twisted.

``shell $ python -c 'from twisted.web.server import Site; from twisted.web.static import File; from twisted.internet import reactor; reactor.listenTCP(8000, Site(File("."))); reactor.run()'

**Ruby**

Credit: [Barking Iguana](http://barkingiguana.com/2010/04/11/a-one-line-web-server-in-ruby/)

```shell
$ ruby -rwebrick -e'WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(:Port => 8000, :DocumentRoot => Dir.pwd).start'

Perl

Credit: Anonymous Monk

$ perl -MCPAN -e "install HTTP::Server::Brick"   # install dependency
$ perl -MHTTP::Server::Brick -e '$s=HTTP::Server::Brick->new(port=>8000); $s->mount("/"=>{path=>"."}); $s->start'

Node.js #1

$ npm install -g http-server   # install dependency
$ http-server -p 8000

Node.js #2

No directory listings.

$ npm install -g node-static   # install dependency
$ static -p 8000

PHP >= 5.4

Credit: /u/prawnsalad, @MattLicense

No directory listings.

php -S 127.0.0.1:8000

Erlang

Credit: @nivertech (with the addition of some basic mime types)

No directory listings.

erl -s inets -eval 'inets:start(httpd,[{server_name,"NAME"},{document_root, "."},{server_root, "."},{port, 8000},{mime_types,[{"html","text/html"},{"htm","text/html"},{"js","text/javascript"},{"css","text/css"},{"gif","image/gif"},{"jpg","image/jpeg"},{"jpeg","image/jpeg"},{"png","image/png"}]}]).'

IIS Express

Credit: /u/fjantomen

No directory listings. /path must be an absolute path.

Depends on IIS Express.

C:\> "C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express\iisexpress.exe" /path:C:\MyWeb /port:8000