web-servers.md

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

Ruby

Credit: Barking Iguana

$ 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

# Runs in Node.js using node-static. No directory listings.
$ npm install -g node-static   # install dependency
$ static -p 8000

PHP >= 5.4

Credit:

php -S 127.0.0.1:8000

Erlang

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

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"}]}]).'

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