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Big list of http static server one-liners
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web-servers.md

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your
current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000.
Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

 Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

 Python 3.x

$ python -m http.server 8000

 Twisted [^(Python)]

$ twistd -n web -p 8000 --path .

Or:

$ 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()'

Depends on Twisted.

 Ruby

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

Credit: Barking Iguana

 Ruby 1.9.2+

$ ruby -run -ehttpd . -p8000

Credit: nobu

 adsf [^(Ruby)]

$ gem install adsf   # install dependency
$ adsf -p 8000

Credit: twome

No directory listings.

 Sinatra [^(Ruby)]

$ gem install sinatra   # install dependency
$ ruby -rsinatra -e'set :public_folder, "."; set :port, 8000'

No directory listings.

 Perl

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

Credit: Anonymous Monk

 Plack [^(Perl)]

$ cpan Plack   # install dependency
$ plackup -MPlack::App::Directory -e 'Plack::App::Directory->new(root=>".");' -p 8000

Credit: miyagawa

 Mojolicious [^(Perl)]

$ cpan Mojolicious::Lite   # install dependency
$ perl -MMojolicious::Lite -MCwd -e 'app->static->paths->[0]=getcwd; app->start' daemon -l http://*:8000

No directory listings.

 http-server [^(Node.js)]

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

Note: This server does funky things with relative paths. For example,
if you have a file /tests/index.html, it will load index.html if you
go to /test, but will treat relative paths as if they were coming
from /.

 node-static [^(Node.js)]

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

No directory listings.

 PHP [^(>= 5.4)]

$ php -S 127.0.0.1:8000

Credit: /u/prawnsalad and MattLicense

No directory listings.

 Erlang

$ 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"}]}]).'

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

No directory listings.

 busybox httpd

$ busybox httpd -f -p 8000

Credit: lvm

 webfs

$ webfsd -F -p 8000

Depends on webfs.

 IIS Express

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

Depends on IIS Express.

Credit: /u/fjantomen

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

 Meta

If you have any suggestions, drop them in the comments below or on
the reddit discussion. To get on this list, a solution must:

 1. serve static files using your current directory (or a specified
    directory) as the server root,
 2. be able to be run with a single, one line command (dependencies
    are fine if they're a one-time thing),
 3. serve basic file types (html, css, js, images) with proper mime
    types,
 4. require no configuration (from files or otherwise) beyond the
    command itself (no framework-specific servers, etc)
 5. must run, or have a mode where it can run, in the foreground
    (i.e. no daemons)

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@MattLicense MattLicense commented Jun 6, 2013

For PHP >=5.4 you can run

$ php -S localhost:8000

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@nivertech nivertech commented Jun 6, 2013

Erlang:

erl -s inets -eval 'inets:start(httpd,[{server_name,"NAME"},{document_root, "."},{server_root, "."},{port, 8000}]).'

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@aschmoe aschmoe commented Jun 6, 2013

If you ever use Drupal, drush 5+ has

$ drush rs 8080

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@twome twome commented Jun 6, 2013

Another Ruby:

$ gem install adsf
$ adsf

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@willurd willurd commented Jun 6, 2013

Thanks for the suggestions everyone!

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@lvm lvm commented Jun 7, 2013

busybox edition:

busybox httpd -p $PORT -h $HOME [ -c httpd.conf ]

Note that the config file is not required but optional.

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@willurd willurd commented Jun 7, 2013

@lvm Thanks. That violates requirement #4 though (because it needs an
httpd.conf file).

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@lvm lvm commented Jun 10, 2013

Oh well, let me rephrase it then :)

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@willurd willurd commented Jun 12, 2013

@lvm Added, thanks!

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@Peeja Peeja commented Jul 3, 2013

This is awesome! One note though, re: http-server:

    Note: This server does funky things with relative paths. For
    example, if you have a file /tests/index.html, it will load
    index.html if you go to /test, but will treat relative paths as
    if they were coming from /.

That should be true for any of these. That's just how HTTP/HTML
works. If you go to /test/ (note the trailing slash), then relative
URLs will be relative to /test/. Relative URLs are always relative to
the last slash in the URL.

The server can't control that; resolving relative URLs is the
browser's job, and the browser doesn't know that /test is meant to be
a directory. What some servers will do for you is redirect to the
trailing-slash URL automatically, which other servers listed here may
do--I'm not sure.

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@nobu nobu commented Jul 3, 2013

Ruby 1.9.2+:

$ ruby -run -ehttpd . -p8000

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@willurd willurd commented Jul 7, 2013

@nobu Added, thanks!

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@willurd willurd commented Jul 7, 2013

@Peeja Automatic redirection is probably what's happening. Thanks!

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@sudodoki sudodoki commented Aug 11, 2013

Just in case you can't install with -g flag in Node.js and node is
all you got, try
npm install connect && echo "var c = require('connect');
c.createServer(c.static(__dirname)).listen(8080);" | node
Note: may get you really weird results + might pollute your folder
with node_modules

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@sshtyck sshtyck commented Dec 13, 2013

Perl

$ perl -MIO::All -e 'io(":8080")->fork->accept->(sub { $_[0] < io(-x $1 +? "./$1 |" : $1) if /^GET \/(.*) / })'

Thanks to:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8058793/
single-line-python-webserver

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@ahmedelgabri ahmedelgabri commented Dec 25, 2013

Created a shell function for this https://gist.github.com/
ahmedelgabri/8122545 "I only needed Python, Ruby & PHP", maybe
someone will find this useful.

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@inconshreveable inconshreveable commented Feb 5, 2014

I just created srvdir which solves this problem elegantly. It is open
source on github and available as a simple binary download with no
dependencies for all major operating systems:

srvdir homepage
srvdir code on github

Unlike all of the other solutions, srvdir serves your directory on a
public HTTPS URL with an optional password. This means you can
securely share the URL with anyone on the internet and are not
restricted to just your local network.

It's also ridiculously simple to use. Serve files in the current
directory:

./srvdir

Serve files from multiple named directories simultaneously:

./srvdir /usr/lib /var/www/

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@moserrya moserrya commented Apr 15, 2014

gem install knod to install dependency
knod -p 8000

Warning! Knod can also write to and delete from the directory you
specify.

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@gdiggs gdiggs commented Apr 16, 2014

Wrote a go version. It's complicated by the fact that you can't
interpret go code from the command line without a file (like you can
with ruby) so it makes a file that deletes itself upon exiting.

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@sesm sesm commented Apr 29, 2014

Clojure (via Leiningen project management tool):

$ lein simpleton 8080

Note: you should install lein-simpleton plugin first by putting
[lein-simpleton "1.3.0"] into the :plugins vector of your :user
profile. Profiles are configured in ~/.lein/profiles.clj, if you
don't have this file yet, you can start with

$ echo "{:user {:plugins [[lein-simpleton \"1.3.0\"]]}}" > ~/.lein/profiles.clj

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@fahrinh fahrinh commented May 2, 2014

Spark (Go)

$ go get github.com/rif/spark
$ spark -port 8000 .

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@obscuresec obscuresec commented May 18, 2014

PowerShell

$Hso=New-Object Net.HttpListener;$Hso.Prefixes.Add("http://+:8000/");$Hso.Start();While ($Hso.IsListening){$HC=$Hso.GetContext();$HRes=$HC.Response;$HRes.Headers.Add("Content-Type","text/plain");$Buf=[Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes((GC (Join-Path $Pwd ($HC.Request).RawUrl)));$HRes.ContentLength64=$Buf.Length;$HRes.OutputStream.Write($Buf,0,$Buf.Length);$HRes.Close()};$Hso.Stop()

PowerShell from cmd.exe

PowerShell.exe -nop -enc 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@karuna karuna commented Jun 12, 2014

Is there any that show directory listing instead of loading
index.html?

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@zhuangya zhuangya commented Jun 22, 2014

@karuna checkout puer

cc @willurd @leeluolee

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@seanomlor seanomlor commented Jun 22, 2014

$ gem install serve
$ serve

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@mauvm mauvm commented Jun 22, 2014

$ npm install -g beefy
$ beefy

With build in support for browserify, watchify, and live-reload.

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@Paxa Paxa commented Jun 22, 2014

Also for ruby

$ gem install httpit
$ httpit

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@kidoman kidoman commented Jun 22, 2014

brew install kidoman/tools/serve

or

go get github.com/kidoman/serve

Provided you have serve under your $PATH somewhere:

serve .

This will serve the current directory at http://localhost:5000/

serve -p 9999 ~/my-awesome-blog

Will serve the contents of the folder ~/my-awesome-blog at http://
localhost:9999/

serve -x /my ~/precious

You guessed it, http://localhost:5000/my is now wired up to ~/
precious

serve -o ~/sesame

Wires up http://localhost:5000 to ~/sesame and opens the URL in your
favorite browser while it is at it.

https://github.com/kidoman/serve

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@jarofghosts jarofghosts commented Jun 22, 2014

shameless plug for node: glance
has index file support, directory listing, error pages, etc etc.

npm install -g glance
glance

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@speier speier commented Jun 22, 2014

Harp, static web server with built-in preprocessing.

$ npm install -g harp
$ harp server

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@Val Val commented Jun 22, 2014

Rack (ruby)

gem install rack --no-ri --no-rdoc
rackup -b 'use Rack::Static, :index => 'README.html'; run Rack::File.new('.')"

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@mbleigh mbleigh commented Jun 22, 2014

Superstatic, static web server with support for pushState, cache
control, and more.

npm install -g superstatic
superstatic -p 8000

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@lethalman lethalman commented Jun 23, 2014

I'd like to request a bash http server using /dev/tcp, anybody has a
one-liner for that?

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@amitu amitu commented Jun 23, 2014

$ pip install djangothis
$ djangothis

Assumes html files in current folder are django templates, so
inheritance etc work. Also files in static folder are served as
static files with correct mime types.

views.py named file can contain importd/django views in case you want
to grow.

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@avsm avsm commented Jun 23, 2014

OCaml is

opam install cohttp async
cohttp-server-async

or

opam install cohttp lwt ssl
cohttp-server-lwt

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@kingofsevens kingofsevens commented Jun 27, 2014

Livereload

For python with live reload feature..

pip install livereload
livereload                         #serves current dir with port 35729 which livereload extensions use
livereload ~/testing -p 8000       # to serve specific directory from specific port

And you can setup shell commands and such for livereloading..

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@ibaaj ibaaj commented Aug 19, 2014

Create an alias in your .bashrc

function serve {
  port="${1:-3000}"
  http-server . -p $port
}


Then just run

serve 5000

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@xudafeng xudafeng commented Sep 24, 2014

nodejs

$ npm install startserver -g
$ server 8080

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@mufid mufid commented Oct 6, 2014

This is very handy to stream media in my notebook to my phone.
Awesome! Thanks!

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@kishaningithub kishaningithub commented Nov 1, 2014

Very coool gist!! Made my day B-)

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@oboxodo oboxodo commented Jan 15, 2015

Add serve

$ gem install serve
$ cd my-project
my-project$ serve

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@ailin-nemui ailin-nemui commented Apr 23, 2015

you can also start HTTPS server which may be important for WSS
services, example with Mojo:
perl -Mojo -MCwd -E'app->static->paths->[0]=getcwd; app->start'
daemon -l 'https://*:8000' (note the http_s_)

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@eadz eadz commented May 24, 2015

For any of these, it would be worth making an alias in your shell.

For example for the ruby example and zsh.

alias server="ruby -run -ehttpd . -p 8080"

in your .zshrc means you can just run "server"

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@reider-roque reider-roque commented Jun 17, 2015

Perl

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -e '$d = HTTP::Daemon->new(LocalPort => 8000) or  +die $!; while 
($c = $d->accept) { while ($r = $c->get_request) { +$c->send_file_response(".".$r->url->path) } }'

HTTP::Daemon comes preinstalled on many Linux distribution and thus
works out of the box.

Credit goes to Anonymous Monk

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@mayrund mayrund commented Jul 28, 2015

Thank you!

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@carlos-jenkins carlos-jenkins commented Sep 1, 2015

Yet another. This is basically SimpleHTTPServer with serving folder
and IP parameters. Plus the hability to remove the serving folder and
later recreate it.

https://github.com/carlos-jenkins/webdev

Installation

pip install webdev

Usage

$ webdev --help
usage: webdev [-h] [-v] [--version] [-i IP] [-p PORT] [path]

Development Web Server

positional arguments:
  path                  Path to serve. Default: Current directory.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose         Increase verbosity level
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -i IP, --ip IP        IP to bind to. Default: 0.0.0.0
  -p PORT, --port PORT  Port to listen to. Default: 8080.

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@beno beno commented Sep 7, 2015 *
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Crystal

Here's one for Crystal. Speedy!

[DEL:crystal eval 'require "http/server"; h =
HTTP::StaticFileHandler.new("."); HTTP::Server.new(8000) {|r| h.call
(r) }.listen':DEL]

updated:

crystal eval 'require "http/server"; HTTP::Server.new(8000, HTTP::StaticFileHandler.new(".")).listen'

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@Klestofer Klestofer commented Sep 27, 2015

a typo here:
https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255#http-server-nodejs

tests/index.html

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@jhftrifork jhftrifork commented Oct 17, 2015

Are there ANY which are available on a default Windows installation?

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@Sebb767 Sebb767 commented Nov 10, 2015

The powershell one should be.

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@hanksudo hanksudo commented Dec 2, 2015

anyway to simply add allow CROS header in one line?

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@darthwalsh darthwalsh commented Dec 5, 2015

There are a couple problems I fixed in the powershell oneliner:

  * Running without elevation, binding to http://+:8000/ fails with
    "Access is denied". Binding to http://localhost:8000/ instead.
  * Serving HTML as plain text content type means it won't render in
    the browser. Lookup content type mapping.
  * The GC was removing newlines from the file, which is awkward if
    you have javascript using // comments. Just open a Stream.
      + bonus: streams instead of buffers!

Add-Type -AssemblyName "System.Web";$Hso=New-Object Net.HttpListener;$Hso.Prefixes.Add("http://localhost:8000/");$Hso.Start();While ($Hso.IsListening){$HC=$Hso.GetContext();$HRes=$HC.Response;$HRes.Headers.Add("Content-Type",[System.Web.MimeMapping]::GetMimeMapping($HC.Request.RawUrl));$Stream=[System.IO.File]::OpenRead((Join-Path $Pwd ($HC.Request.RawUrl)));$HRes.ContentLength64=$Stream.Length;$Stream.CopyTo($HRes.OutputStream);$Stream.Close();$HRes.Close()};$Hso.Stop()

I also can't figure out how to break out of the one-liner from the
command line. Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Break don't do anything. Having to kill
powershell.exe is annoying.

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@cameronkerrnz cameronkerrnz commented Jan 15, 2016 *
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And in case you're wondering where HTTPS is in all this...

Turns out to pretty simple with OpenSSL's s_server utility. I've just
used this to help test out a load-balancer configuration before the
real backend was ready (not to serve content per-se). The first line
creates a self-signed certificate.

openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -x509 -subj '/CN=name-you-want.example.com' -days 3650 -out server.cert -keyout server.key
openssl s_server -accept 7781 -cert server.cert -key server.key -WWW

Unfortunately, this does not work for HEAD requests, which is a
shame, because the behaviour is to time out.

See the manual page for s_server for more info.

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@aufflick aufflick commented Feb 10, 2016

FYI some time ago I tweaked my (perl) HTTP::Server::Brick module to
make one liners easier.

perl -MHTTP::Server::Brick -e 'HTTP::Server::Brick->new(fork=>1)->mount(qw(/ .))->start'

It can also support SSL, see https://metacpan.org/pod/
HTTP::Server::Brick

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@vwochnik vwochnik commented Mar 5, 2016

For Go, there is a simple HTTP server at https://github.com/vwochnik/
gost

go install vwochnik/gost

Then, simply run

gost

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@maximveksler maximveksler commented Apr 21, 2016

no pul requests with gist, made a syntactic sugar fix to php https://
gist.github.com/maximveksler/a2651d78f1c9da6a686332780d3f12f4/
revisions

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@qwIvan qwIvan commented Apr 23, 2016 *
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install
npm install anywhere -g

run
anywhere

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@withakay withakay commented May 1, 2016

Haskell (via the maid module https://hackage.haskell.org/package/maid
).

install
cabal install maid

serve cwd on default port 3000
maid

serve on another port
maid 5000

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@samclearman samclearman commented May 12, 2016

 1. Do any of these support ipv6?
 2. Can I change the 404 page for any of them?

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@robinclart robinclart commented Jun 24, 2016

One more for Ruby using Rack.

ruby -r rack -e "Rack::Server.start && run(Rack::Directory.new('./public'))"

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@matrunchyk matrunchyk commented Jun 27, 2016

For Laravel (PHP):

php artisan serve

or

php artisan serve --host=127.0.0.1 --port=8000

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@hickford hickford commented Aug 2, 2016

I like "Ran: a simple static web server written in Go" https://
github.com/m3ng9i/ran

ran -p 8000

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Mine, zero install if node.js available: pad.js.org, source
curl pad.js.org | node
Additionatlly, it supports [cross-domain] browser console/terminal/
browser drag&drop uploads and regular and multipart (HTTP 206)
downloads
Update: also npx pad.js

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@yaasita yaasita commented Sep 6, 2016

docker run -d -p 8080:80 --name my-apache-app -v "$PWD":/usr/local/apache2/htdocs/ httpd:2.4-alpine

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@mcmillhj mcmillhj commented Sep 20, 2016

Can use netcat on *nix machines:

while true ; do nc -l 80 < test.html ; done

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@souenzzo souenzzo commented Oct 2, 2016

darkhttpd . (deps: darkhttp)

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@gbc921 gbc921 commented Nov 9, 2016

How about nweb (previously from IBM)?
Example: nweb 8181 /home/nwebdir &

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@MW3000 MW3000 commented Nov 11, 2016

Pharo Smalltalk:

(ZnServer startDefaultOn: 8000) delegate: (ZnStaticFileServerDelegate new directory: '/var/www' asFileReference; yourself).

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@mohanraj-r mohanraj-r commented Nov 24, 2016 *
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Following is the same implementation in golang. Although technically
it is not a one-liner and requires you to type out the contents in a
file ..etc, I have seen it perform 10x faster (req/sec) than the
Python 2.7.10 / 3.5 equivalents (measured using apachebench ab -n
1000 ..).

main.go

import "net/http"

func main() {
   http.ListenAndServe(":8000", http.FileServer(http.Dir(".")))
}

> go run main.go

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@olejorgenb olejorgenb commented Dec 26, 2016 *
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Python 3: Restrict access to connections from localhost: python -m
http.server 8000 --bind 127.0.0.1 [1]

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@mholt mholt commented Jan 3, 2017 *
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Caddy does all of this and without any dependencies (plus it runs
anywhere):

$ caddy -port 8000

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@cheater cheater commented Jan 3, 2017

@gordondiggs you can use <(echo ...) in bash to simulate files. Maybe
that could hrlp with Go.

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@nabijaczleweli nabijaczleweli commented Jan 10, 2017

Rust has http:

$ cargo install https
$ http
Hosting "." on port 8000...
Ctrl-C to stop.

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@codeflows codeflows commented Jan 17, 2017

Following up on the Go example by @mohanraj-r, you can also install
gommand and run

gommand 'http.ListenAndServe(":8000", http.FileServer(http.Dir(".")))
'

directly from the command line without creating an intermediate
source file.

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@kristianlm kristianlm commented Feb 2, 2017

Here's how you'd do something like that in CHICKEN:

chicken-install -s spiffy
csi -R spiffy -e '(root-path ".") (start-server port: 8008)'

Note that does no directory listing, so you have to include the
filenames in your url. Directory listings make things uglier:

chicken-install -s spiffy-directory-listing
csi -R spiffy-directory-listing -R spiffy -e '(handle-directory spiffy-directory-listing) (root-path ".") (start-server port: 8008)'

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@sincarne sincarne commented Feb 16, 2017

Similar to ibaaj, I have the following function in my bash setup:

function serve() {
        if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
                php -S localhost:8000
        else
                php -S localhost:"$@"
        fi
}

If you run serve, it starts the server on port 8000. If you supply an
argument, it expects that argument to be the port number, and uses
that instead.

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@jeremejazz jeremejazz commented Feb 27, 2017 *
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@matrunchyk I don't think that's for running static html files. That
is used to run a laravel framework. Although you might see your
static files, you are still required to install Laravel framework.
Just use the built-in php server to run simple webpages (as aready
included on the list)

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@ThePacketBender ThePacketBender commented Mar 15, 2017

$ go get github.com/yudai/gotty
$ $GOPATH/bin/gotty -a 127.0.0.1 -p 8000 -w cat file.ext

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@Grinnz Grinnz commented Mar 29, 2017 *
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For a pre-built Mojolicious (perl) solution with directory listings:

$ cpan App::SimpleHTTPServer
$ serve_dir

(defaults to port 8000)

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$ npm install -g serve
$ serve .

(this will host . at localhost:5000)

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@yihui yihui commented Apr 29, 2017

R

Using the servr package:

$ Rscript -e 'servr::httd()' -p8000

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@rosenfeld rosenfeld commented Jun 7, 2017

Sometimes I want to check the gzipped size when comparing solutions.
Here's how you can do it with a one liner in Ruby assuming the rack
gem is installed:

rackup -p 5000 < <(echo "use Rack::Deflate; use Rack::Static, root:
Dir.pwd, urls: [''], index: 'index.html'; run ->(env){[404, {}, []]}
")

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@derekedelaney derekedelaney commented Jun 14, 2017

I recently used ngrok to help me serve files.
You can download to install on Windows or brew cask install ngrok on
Mac.
To run in this example use ngrok http 8000.

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@lyman lyman commented Jun 16, 2017

For twistd 17.1.0,port format should be twistd -n web -p 'tcp:port=
8081' --path .

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@focusaurus focusaurus commented Jul 20, 2017

If you have npm version 5.2 or newer, you can one-liner it with npx
node-static -p 8000

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@hansnans hansnans commented Aug 1, 2017 *
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(python) static localhost 8080 path

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@qwIvan qwIvan commented Aug 13, 2017 *
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npm install -g anywhere
anywhere
or
npx anywhere

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@konfou konfou commented Aug 14, 2017

On darkhttpd referred before, it can be quickly downloaded, built and
run by doing:

curl -L unix4lyfe.org/gitweb/darkhttpd/blob_plain/HEAD:/darkhttpd.c | cc -O2 -o darkhttpd -xc -
darkhttpd . --port 8000

Similarly for, the also referred before, nweb:

curl -L raw.githubusercontent.com/ankushagarwal/nweb/master/nweb23.c | cc -O2 -o nweb -xc -
nweb 8000 . &

And yet another one is tiny:

curl -L raw.githubusercontent.com/shenfeng/tiny-web-server/master/tiny.c | cc -O2 -o tiny -xc -
tiny 8000

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These versions of adsf gem are currently available: (1.2.1, 1.2.0,
1.1.1, 1.0.1, 1.0)
All above the 1.0 require Ruby >=2.2.2 because of Rack.

So Ruby 2.0 can run only asdf 1.0 or do a gem install rack --version
1.6.0 before installing the latest adsf.

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@rwenz3l rwenz3l commented Sep 19, 2017

Twisted (Python) changed the way ports are set, a proper one-liner
would be:

twistd --nodaemon web --port "tcp:port=8888" --path=/path/to/serve

or in a shorter version:

twistd -n web -p "tcp:port=8000" --path .

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isn't it

ruby -run -e httpd

not:

ruby -run -ehttpd

there are other -flags that need space after them
also note the last revision of the gist is of 7 Jul 2013.

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@soulfly soulfly commented Oct 23, 2017

Is it possible to test a simple POST request with any of these 1
liners?
I just need to dump all input params to log

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@liuyang1 liuyang1 commented Nov 10, 2017

I had use Python's SimpleHTTPServer. It's simple and fast.

But when serve a big folder contains tons of files, I want basic
filename searching.

Do you know any HTTP server support this function?

I use Everything in Windows. It support HTTP service. For now, I want
a linux service.

Thanks for your sharing.

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@guicho271828 guicho271828 commented Nov 12, 2017

common lisp with roswell:

 ros install clack
 clackup <(echo "(lack:builder (:static :path #'identity) #'identity)")

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@augnustin augnustin commented Nov 22, 2017 *
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Regarding the 2.X python version, I did not like error when pressing
Ctrl+C:

^CTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 174, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/runpy.py", line 72, in _run_code
    exec code in run_globals
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SimpleHTTPServer.py", line 235, in <module>
    test()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SimpleHTTPServer.py", line 231, in test
    BaseHTTPServer.test(HandlerClass, ServerClass)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 610, in test
    httpd.serve_forever()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 231, in serve_forever
    poll_interval)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/SocketServer.py", line 150, in _eintr_retry
    return func(*args)
KeyboardInterrupt

So I muted stderr.

Here' full command with port as first argument (from previous
comments):

function serve() {
  port="${1:-3000}"
  python -m SimpleHTTPServer $port 2> /dev/null
}

If someone has a cleanest solution to achieve this, it is welcome! 

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@Globik Globik commented Jan 26, 2018

And in C?

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node.js

serve-static

  * sudo npm install serve-static
  * static-server -p 8000

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@mildmojo mildmojo commented Feb 2, 2018

Modern npm ships with npx, which will execute a command from an npm
package if it's already installed or fetch the package it, run the
command, and then remove the package again. So any node example can
be shortened to things like:

npx static-server
npx http-server

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@moshe moshe commented Feb 9, 2018

HTTP server implemented in around 50 lines of bash
https://github.com/moshe/abache/

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@andrehcampos andrehcampos commented Feb 9, 2018

Lets you browse files on the default host and port:

caddy browse

Short Caddyfile

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@nabinno nabinno commented Feb 24, 2018

Elixir:

elixir --no-halt --app inets -e ":inets.start(:httpd,[{:server_name,'s'},{:document_root,'.'},{:server_root,'.'},{:port,8000}])"

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@jkiddo jkiddo commented Mar 19, 2018

docker run -it --rm --name python-web -p 8000:8000 -v "$PWD":/usr/src
/myapp -w /usr/src/myapp python:3 python -m http.server

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@pezhore pezhore commented Mar 23, 2018

Slight change to the powershell:

When requesting http://localhost:800/server/shutdown, the listener
will now close, preventing you from having to kill powershell.exe

Add-Type -AssemblyName "System.Web";$Hso=New-Object Net.HttpListener;
$Hso.Prefixes.Add("http://localhost:8000/");$Hso.Start();While
($Hso.IsListening){$HC=$Hso.GetContext();$HRes=$HC.Response;if
($HC.Request.RawUrl -eq '/server/shutdown'){$Hso.Stop()};
$HRes.Headers.Add("Content-Type",
[System.Web.MimeMapping]::GetMimeMapping($HC.Request.RawUrl));$Stream
=[System.IO.File]::OpenRead((Join-Path $Pwd ($HC.Request.RawUrl)));
$HRes.ContentLength64=$Stream.Length;$Stream.CopyTo
($HRes.OutputStream);$Stream.Close();$HRes.Close()};

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@xyproto xyproto commented Apr 21, 2018 *
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Using Algernon (written in Go):

algernon -x 8000

Or for port 3000, just:

algernon -x

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@imgarylai imgarylai commented Apr 27, 2018

I create a collection here: https://github.com/imgarylai/
awesome-webservers

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(comment removed)

Sorry, I removed your comment (a base64-encoded powershell command).
I took a look through the decoded command and didn't find anything
bad, but I don't want to encourage people to get into the habit of
running encoded powershell commands they got off the internet.

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@ArtemGordinsky ArtemGordinsky commented Aug 24, 2018

I can recommend HTTP Bin by Kenneth Reitz. You can run it locally
with Docker:

docker run -p 8000:80 kennethreitz/httpbin

It doesn't log requests in stdout unfortunately, but you can run
Ngrok to see them in its web UI:

ngrok http localhost:8000

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@vilaca vilaca commented Oct 25, 2018

hugo server -D

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Two (nix + haskell) versions

nix-shell -p haskellPackages.hserv --command hserv

or if you want to install it globally nix-env -iA
nixos.haskellPackages.hserv

hserv

---------------------------------------------------------------------

nix-shell -p haskellPackages.wai-app-static --command warp

or if you want to install it globally nix-env -iA
nixos.haskellPackages.wai-app-static

warp

---------------------------------------------------------------------

There are many you could use this way. darkhttpd or serve (from npm)
work just as well.

nix-shell -p darkhttpd --command "darkhttpd ."

nix-shell -p nodePackages.serve --command serve

Many examples above can be one liners with no install if you use nix.
Because nix is universal.

nix-shell -p caddy --command "caddy browse"

nix-shell -p ruby --command "ruby -run -e httpd"

nix-shell -p busybox --command "busybox httpd -d -p 8080"

nix-shell -p python --command "python -m SimpleHTTPServer"

nix-shell -p python3 --command "python -m http.server"

nix-shell -p php --command "php -S 127.0.0.1:8080"

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Ruby, from http://phrogz.net/simplest-possible-ruby-web-server

ruby -run -e httpd -- -p 8000 .

# Needs sudo since it defaults to port 80
sudo ruby -rwebrick -e 'WEBrick::HTTPServer.new.start'

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Pure NodeJS static server:

require('http').createServer((req,res)=>{require('fs').readFile(req.url.substr(1),(err,e)=>{res.write(e);res.end()})}).listen(8000)

-->

http://localhost:8000

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@hasparus hasparus commented Dec 14, 2018

npx serve?

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@bessangel bessangel commented Mar 1, 2019

There is netcat in almost any *nix OS
Serve one file over http as text/html:

echo -ne "HTTP/1.0 OK\n\n"; cat  < index.html; } | nc -q0 -vlp 5000;

Serve binary file:

{ echo -ne "HTTP/1.0 OK\nContent-Type:application/octet-stream\n\n"; cat  < video.avi; } | nc -q0 -vlp 5000

Serve files continuously:

  while true; do echo -ne "HTTP/1.0 OK\n\n"; cat  < index.html; } | nc -q0 -vlp 5000; done

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@snwfdhmp snwfdhmp commented Mar 2, 2019

For Golang https://github.com/snwfdhmp/simplehttp

$ go get github.com/snwfdhmp/simplehttp #install
$ simplehttp
INFO[0000] Serving ./ over 0.0.0.0:8080... Stop with ^C

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@renatoathaydes renatoathaydes commented Mar 9, 2019 *
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Hi, your list is missing an entry for Java.

I am the author of a HTTP server that fits your requirements. You can
install it as a single jar with:

curl https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/athaydes/rawhttp/rawhttp-cli/1.0/rawhttp-cli-1.0-all.jar -o rawhttp.jar

Then, run with:

java -jar ./rawhttp.jar serve . -p 8000

Works with Java 8+ including latest Java 11 versions.

Documentation
Sources

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@craigshoemaker craigshoemaker commented May 29, 2019

Consider adding lite-server for Node.js:

npm i lite-server --save-dev
lite-server

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@lukeaus lukeaus commented Jul 2, 2019

Checkout Lama.sh

curl lama.sh | sh

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@pixeldrew pixeldrew commented Jul 16, 2019

chrome has https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/
web-server-for-chrome/ofhbbkphhbklhfoeikjpcbhemlocgigb/related

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@asterite3 asterite3 commented Jul 26, 2019

Nginx: https://gist.github.com/asterite3/
4b9159b8bfcdf9ad8def88168d28b60e

T=`mktemp` P=`mktemp` && bash -e -c "exec 3<$T && exec 4>$P && rm $P && echo -e 'daemon off;worker_processes auto;pid /dev/null;error_log /dev/stderr;events {} http {  access_log /dev/stdout; include /etc/nginx/mime.types; server { listen 127.0.0.1:8000; location / { autoindex on; autoindex_exact_size off; root .;} }}' > $T && rm $T && exec nginx -p . -c /dev/fd/3"

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@natemcmaster natemcmaster commented Aug 3, 2019

Consider adding dotnet-serve for .NET Core users (all platforms, not
just Windows).

dotnet tool install --global dotnet-serve
dotnet serve -p 8000

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@ykmnkmi ykmnkmi commented Aug 9, 2019

For dartlang:

pub global activate dhttpd
[if not in PATH: pub global run] dhttpd

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@mamantoha mamantoha commented Aug 21, 2019

For Crystal

crystal eval 'require "http/server"; HTTP::Server.new([HTTP::StaticFileHandler.new(".")]).listen(8000)'

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@informvisu informvisu commented Oct 4, 2019 *
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All you need is JAVA 1.6+

./httpServer.sh

/opt/java_1.6/bin/javac HTTPServer.java
/opt/java_1.6/bin/java HTTPServer $1

HTTPServer.java

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.util.Date;
import com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpExchange;
import com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpHandler;
import com.sun.net.httpserver.HttpServer;

public class HTTPServer {
        static int port = 8000;
        public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
                if(args.length > 0) try {
                        port = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
                } catch (Exception e) {System.out.println("Invalid port number "+args[0]);}
                HttpServer server = HttpServer.create(new InetSocketAddress(InetAddress.getLocalHost(), port), 5);
                System.out.println("Server is listening at "+server.getAddress());
                server.createContext("/", new MyHandler());
                server.setExecutor(null); // creates a default executor
                server.start();
        }
        static class MyHandler implements HttpHandler {
                @Override
                public void handle(HttpExchange t) throws IOException {
                        String response = "This is the response"; //TODO construct your own response
                        t.sendResponseHeaders(200, response.length());
                        OutputStream os = t.getResponseBody();
                        os.write(response.getBytes());
                        os.close();
                }
        }
}

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@tvw tvw commented Oct 9, 2019

Apache Webserver:

port="${1:-8080}"

apache2 -DFOREGROUND -d. -f/dev/null \
    -C"PidFile `mktemp -u`" \
    -C"ServerName localhost" \
    -C"LoadModule authz_core_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authz_core.so" \
    -C"LoadModule mpm_event_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_mpm_event.so" \
    -C"LoadModule dir_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_dir.so" \
    -C"Listen $port" \
    -C"TransferLog /dev/stdout" \
    -C"ErrorLog /dev/stdout" \
    -C"DirectoryIndex index.html" \
    -C"DocumentRoot `pwd`" \
    -e debug

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@tvw tvw commented Oct 9, 2019

Phusion Passenger (Nginx based):

port="${1:-8080}"
passenger start --static-files-dir . -p $port

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@tvw tvw commented Oct 9, 2019

A script, which just starts the first solution available on the
machine:

#!/bin/bash
port="${1:-8080}"

if [ "$(command -v apache2)" != "" ]; then
  apache2 -DFOREGROUND -d. -f/dev/null \
    -C"PidFile `mktemp -u`" \
    -C"ServerName localhost" \
    -C"LoadModule authz_core_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_authz_core.so" \
    -C"LoadModule mpm_event_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_mpm_event.so" \
    -C"LoadModule dir_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_dir.so" \
    -C"Listen $port" \
    -C"TransferLog /dev/stdout" \
    -C"ErrorLog /dev/stdout" \
    -C"DirectoryIndex index.html" \
    -C"DocumentRoot `pwd`" \
    -e debug
elif [ "$(command -v passenger)" != "" ]; then
  passenger start --static-files-dir .  -p $port
elif [ "$(command -v ruby)" != "" ]; then
  ruby -run -e httpd . -p $port
elif [ "$(command -v php)" != "" ]; then
  php -S localhost:$port
elif [ "$(command -v ~/.pub-cache/bin/dhttpd)" != "" ]; then
  ~/.pub-cache/bin/dhttpd -p $port
elif [ "$(command -v python)" != "" ]; then
  python -m SimpleHTTPServer $port
elif [ "$(command -v python3)" != "" ]; then
  python3 -m http.server $port
elif [ "$(command -v busybox)" != "" ]; then
  echo "Serving HTTP (Busybox) on 0.0.0.0 port $port"
  busybox httpd -f -p $port
else
  echo "No http-server available on this machine"
fi

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Notice that starting in Python 3.8, only on some machines - the
default binding is to IPv6.

So, to force IPv4, use the following:

$ python -m http.server 8000 -b 0.0.0.0
or
$ python -m http.server 8000 --bind 0.0.0.0

Documentation source:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html

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@ribtoks ribtoks commented Nov 3, 2019

go get -u github.com/ribtoks/servedir

Just servedir will serve current directory on http://localhost:8080
but you can specify directory, http path and port.

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@prestancedesign prestancedesign commented Nov 6, 2019

Clojure (without leiningen tool)

clj -Sdeps '{:deps {nasus {:mvn/version "0.1.5"}}}' -m http.server

Specify custom port:
clj -Sdeps '{:deps {nasus {:mvn/version "0.1.5"}}}' -m http.server
8001

It's recommended to add an alias in clojure config file after that
the command will be shorter:
clj -A:http.server

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@libert-xyz libert-xyz commented Dec 4, 2019 *
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A star for you

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@gianpaolof gianpaolof commented Dec 10, 2019

this is very cool
https://github.com/benrady/shinatra/blob/master/shinatra.sh

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@isurfer21 isurfer21 commented Dec 29, 2019

A blazing fast lightweight command-line based micro webserver https:/
/isurfer21.github.io/Suxm/

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@jasonrobot jasonrobot commented Jan 18, 2020

    crystal eval 'require "http/server"; HTTP::Server.new(8000,
    HTTP::StaticFileHandler.new(".")).listen'

Update to the Crystal version - the Server constructor changed, and
needs to be bound to a TCP port separately. For 0.32.0:
crystal eval 'require "http/server"; server = HTTP::Server.new
(HTTP::StaticFileHandler.new(".")); server.bind_tcp(8080);
server.listen'

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@travispaul travispaul commented Jan 18, 2020 *
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Bozohttpd is an minimalist webserver with no config file, its main
feature is the lack of features.

It ships with NetBSD. To run in the foreground and serve files on
port 8080 in the current directory:

/usr/libexec/httpd -I 8080 -f -b -X .

You can also get it from Pkgsrc and possibly other package managers
but will need to invoke it as "bozohttpd":
/usr/pkg/libexec/bozohttpd -I 8080 -f -b -X .

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@danielbarry danielbarry commented Jan 18, 2020

Java 1.7+

NOTE: Tested in Linux with OpenJDK.

You can use the following in a directory of your choosing:

echo -e 'import java.net.*;import java.nio.file.*;public class M{public static void main(String[] args)throws Exception{byte[]b=new byte[16777215];ServerSocket s=new ServerSocket(3333);for(;;)try{Socket c=s.accept();c.getInputStream().read(b);c.getOutputStream().write(("HTTP/1.1 200 OK\\r\\n\\r\\n"+new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(new String(b).split(" ")[1].substring(1))))).getBytes());c.getOutputStream().flush();c.close();}catch(Exception e){}}}'>M.java;javac M.java;java M

Then use your browser to access 127.0.0.1:3333/<your_file>.

Configuration

  * Port can be changed by editing 3333
  * Max file size can be changed by editing 16777215 (must be larger
    than the largest expected client header and file to be handled,
    limited by max size of Java integer)

Known Limitations

  * Only one client at time can serviced
  * Expects a well formed header response
  * Some browsers could get very upset with the malformed response

Likely Limitations

  * [DEL:Probably vulnerable to directory traversal attack https://
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_traversal_attack:DEL] (Seems to
    pass basic tests)
  * Probably vulnerable to Slowloris attacks (timeout not set) https:
    //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowloris_(computer_security)

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@jsdw jsdw commented Jan 18, 2020

Here's a Rust based static file server: https://github.com/jsdw/weave

Basic usage:

weave 8080 to ./path/to/files

To install the single binary on Linux, run:
curl -L https://github.com/jsdw/weave/releases/download/v0.4.1/
weave-v0.4.1-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz | tar -xz

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@vwochnik vwochnik commented Jan 18, 2020

For Golang

go get github.com/vwochnik/gost

And then

gost

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@michaelmior michaelmior commented Jan 18, 2020

    Rust has http:

Also miniserve!

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@madacol madacol commented Jan 18, 2020 *
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sudo apt-get install servefile
servefile -p 8000 -l .

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here's another one..

$ go get github.com/goware/webify
$ webify

output:

================================================================================
Serving:  /home/peter
URL:      http://0.0.0.0:3000
Cache:    off
================================================================================

FYI, -help will show flags like -dir, -port, -host, -cache. The
default -dir flag is to serve current working directory

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There's two versions for Node but both need an extra dependency.

Here's a one-liner with no dependency:

node --eval "var fs = require('fs'), http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) { fs.readFile(__dirname +
req.url, function (err,data) { if (err) { res.writeHead(404); res.end
(JSON.stringify(err)); return;}res.writeHead(200);res.end(data);
});}).listen(8000);"

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One with GNU awk

gawk '@load"filefuncs";@load"readfile";func send(s,e,d,t,b)
{print"HTTP/1.0 "s" "e|&S;print"Content-Length: "b|&S;
print"Content-Type: "t|&S;print d|&S;close(S);}func cf(x){split(x,y,"
/");for(z in y){print "FOUND "y[z];if(y[z]==".."){return 0;}}return
1;}func mt(f){c="file -b --mime-type "f;r="";while((c|getline z)>0){r
=r z;}close(c);return r;}BEGIN{if(ARGV[1]!=""){if(chdir(ARGV[1]))
{print "Failed to chdir to "ARGV[1];exit;}ARGC=1;}RS=ORS="\r\n";while
(1){S="/inet/tcp/8080/0/0";while((S|&getline l)>0){split(l,f," ");if
(f[1]=="GET"){p=substr(f[2],2)}if(p==""){p="index.html"}stat(p,s);if
(cf(p)&&s["type"]=="file"){m=mt(p);o=readfile(p);send(200,"OK",o,m,s
["size"]);break;}n="<html>Not Found</html>";send(404,"Not
Found",n,"text/html"RS,length(n));break;}}}'

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For the node versions that have dependencies, you can do it without
(explicitly) installing the dep:

$ npx node-static -p 8000

that example doesn't require node-static to be installed first - it
will download it, install it in a tmpdir, and run it. npx ships with
node since.... 8.16.0, maybe?

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@3rd 3rd commented Jan 18, 2020

npx serve - nodejs, with directory listing

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@telmich telmich commented Jan 18, 2020

You all are aware that the rules above also apply to just using
nginx, apache or lighttpd?

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while : ; do ( echo -ne "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n" ; cat index.html; ) |
nc -l -p 8080 ; done

lol

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@trzecieu trzecieu commented Jan 19, 2020

Mercurial:

hg serve

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@sjoonk sjoonk commented Jan 19, 2020

In WordPress /w WP-CLI:

wp server

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python -m aiohttp.web -H localhost -P 8080 package.module:init_func

https://docs.aiohttp.org/en/stable/web_quickstart.html

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@jdebp jdebp commented Jan 20, 2020

UCSPI and publicfile

These serve up the ./127.0.0.1/ or ./::1/ subdirectory, because that
is how publicfile does virtual hosting. Make those a symbolic link to
. to make the current directory the one served. Also note that
Bernstein publicfile does an unconditional chroot() and thus requires
superuser privileges. One can substitute other UCSPI server programs
for it, that do not.

For GOPHER+ and FTP instead, similarly substitute djbwares's gopherd
or Daniel J. Bernstein's ftpd.

UCSPI-TCP and publicfile, IP version 4

  * Daniel J. Bernstein's tcpserver and httpd:

tcpserver -H -R -P 127.0.0.1 8000 httpd .

  * nosh toolset's tcpserver and Bernstein httpd:

tcpserver 127.0.0.1 8000 httpd .

  * nosh toolset's tcp-socket-listen, tcp-socket-accept, and
    Bernstein httpd:

tcp-socket-listen 127.0.0.1 8000 tcp-socket-accept httpd .

  * Laurent Bercot's s6-tcpserver4 and Bernstein httpd:

s6-tcpserver4 127.0.0.1 8000 httpd .

  * Gerrit Pape's tcpsvd and Bernstein httpd:

tcpsvd 127.0.0.1 8000 httpd .

UCSPI-SSL and publicfile

  * Erwin Hoffmann's sslserver and Bernstein httpd:

sslserver -H -R -P ::1 8000 httpd .

UCSPI-TCP and publicfile, IP version 6

  * Erwin Hoffmann's tcpserver and Bernstein httpd:

tcpserver -H -R -P ::1 8000 httpd .

  * nosh toolset's tcp-socket-listen, tcp-socket-accept, and
    Bernstein httpd:

tcp-socket-listen ::1 8000 tcp-socket-accept httpd .

  * or for both IPv4 and IPv6:

tcp-socket-listen --systemd-compatibility ::1 8000 tcp-socket-listen --systemd-compatibility 127.0.0.1 8000 tcp-socket-accept httpd .

  * Laurent Bercot's s6-tcpserver6 and Bernstein httpd:

s6-tcpserver6 ::1 8000 httpd .

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@vandot vandot commented Jan 26, 2020

It still oneliner :)
golang
echo 'package main\nimport "net/http"\nfunc main() {fs :=
http.FileServer(http.Dir("."))\nhttp.Handle("/", fs)\
nhttp.ListenAndServe(":8000", nil)}' > main.go; go run main.go; rm
main.go

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@denisgolius denisgolius commented Jan 26, 2020

./asmttpd ./web_root 8080

https://github.com/nemasu/asmttpd

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@0xfd000000 0xfd000000 commented Feb 5, 2020

I'm kinda surprised that websocketd hasn't been mentioned so far. It
can serve static directories plus lots of awesome on top :)

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@0xfd000000 0xfd000000 commented Feb 5, 2020

D'oh, maybe I should've added the actual one-liner:

websocketd --staticdir=. --port=8080

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newLISP

newlisp -http -d 8080 -w /usr/home/www/httpdocs &

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@iSignal iSignal commented Feb 20, 2020

twistd seems to have changed to twistd -n web --port tcp:port=8000
--path .

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@unknownterritory unknownterritory commented Feb 27, 2020

Browser-sync:

$ npm install -g browser-sync   # install dependency
$ browser-sync start -s -f . --no-notify --port 8000

  * Automatically opens a new tab on the browser and serves the
    website.
  * Watches for changes in any file on the directory from which the
    command was issued and live-reloads the website.
  * Provides internal and external urls so other devices in the same
    network can check the website as well.
  * Provides internal and external console urls for further
    configuration of the server.
  * -s for --server
  * -f for --files, file paths to watch.
  * --no-notify entirely optional. It just disables the little
    browser-sync pop-ups.

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Is there a one liner that adds the header
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

EDIT: Found this for http-server and browser-sync, still needs npm
install though:

npm install -g http-server
http-server static_files/ --port 9000 --cors

npm install -g browser-sync
browser-sync start --serveStatic static_files/ --no-open --server --port 9001 --cors

tags: same-origin, cross-origin

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@ZetaoYang ZetaoYang commented Mar 22, 2020

Rust:
https://github.com/kettle11/devserver
https://crates.io/crates/devserver

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@ghostbuster91 ghostbuster91 commented Mar 22, 2020

Scala

coursier
coursier launch
com.softwaremill.sttp.livestub:livestub-app_2.13:0.1.4-SNAPSHOT -- -p
8081

or using docker:
docker run -p 8081:7070 softwaremill/sttp.livestub

More info: https://github.com/softwaremill/livestub

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@mieszko4 mieszko4 commented Apr 8, 2020

Deno

deno install -f --allow-net --allow-read file_server https://
deno.land/std/http/file_server.ts && ~/.deno/bin/file_server --port
8000

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@tlcu tlcu commented Apr 22, 2020

JavaScript, but at least does nice directory listings:

$ yarn global add serve
$ serve

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@nathanvogel nathanvogel commented May 28, 2020

Node.js

Live reload and directory listings:

npm install -g live-server
live-server

https://www.npmjs.com/package/live-server

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@ctsrc ctsrc commented Aug 24, 2020

Caddy v2:

caddy file-server

Will serve files from the current working directory, and does not
require any configuration to do this.

Reference: https://caddyserver.com/docs/command-line#
caddy-file-server

Referenced link has some additional details with some optional
arguments that you can provide to it.

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@kleinron kleinron commented Sep 18, 2020

twisted changed a bit:

$ twistd -n web -p "tcp:port=8000" --path .

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@kleinron kleinron commented Sep 18, 2020

twisted changed a bit:

$ twistd -n web -p "tcp:port=8000" --path .

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@efxtv efxtv commented Oct 14, 2020

Run command in the terminal

wget google.com|php -S localhost:4444

go to http://localhost:4444

**From India**

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@prestancedesign prestancedesign commented Oct 14, 2020

ClojureScript build tool Shadow-CLJS:

npx shadow-cljs serve

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@f5b7 f5b7 commented Oct 15, 2020

    This is awesome! One note though, re: http-server:

        Note: This server does funky things with relative paths. For
        example, if you have a file /tests/index.html, it will load
        index.html if you go to /test, but will treat relative paths
        as if they were coming from /.

    That should be true for any of these. That's just how HTTP/HTML
    works. If you go to /test/ (note the trailing slash), then
    relative URLs will be relative to /test/. Relative URLs are
    always relative to the last slash in the URL.

    The server can't control that; resolving relative URLs is the
    browser's job, and the browser doesn't know that /test is meant
    to be a directory. What some servers will do for you is redirect
    to the trailing-slash URL automatically, which other servers
    listed here may do--I'm not sure.

Thank you @Peeja, that explains why I couldn't reproduce those funky
things 

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@tinmarino tinmarino commented Nov 3, 2020

Copying @moshe, I pushed a BaSh web server abache. I also prefer to
copy it here: this list helped me a lot for a class (on sockets)

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# BaSh server with Netcat
#
# Home: https://github.com/tinmarino/abache
# Thanks: moshe


# Define HTTP header <- windows like and finish with 2 newlines
HEADER="HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: close
Server: Abache
Date: $(date)
"

# Hardcode the html <head> tag
read -r -d '' HEAD <<'EOF'
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <title>BFS: Bash FileServer</title>
  <meta name="description" content="BaSh HTTP FileServer like python -m http.server\nFor teaching purpose">
  <meta name="author" content="Tinmarino">
</head>
EOF

serve_file(){
  # <- FILEPATH -> CONTENT
  if command -v bat &> /dev/null &&  command -v ansi2html &> /dev/null; then
    CONTENT="$(bat --style plain --theme "ansi-dark" --color always --pager "" "$FILEPATH" | ansi2html)"
  else
    CONTENT="<pre>$(cat "$FILEPATH" < /dev/null)</pre>"
  fi
}

serve_dir(){
  # <- FILEPATH -> CONTENT
  # shellcheck disable=SC2086  # Double quote to prevent globbing
  read -r -d '' CONTENT <<EOF
$HEAD
<body>\n<table>\n
<tr>\n<td>Name</td><td>Size (bytes)</td></tr>
<tr>\n<td><a href="..">..</a></td><td></td></tr>
$(stat --printf='<tr>\n<td><a href="/%n">%n<a/></td><td>%s</td></tr>\n' $FILEPATH/*)
</tr>\n</table>\n</body>\n</html>\n
EOF
}

# Get port <- command line
if [[ -n "$1" ]]; then PORT=$1 ; else PORT=8080 ; fi
echo "Abache listening on port $PORT"

# Create FIFO (alias NamedPipe)
FIFO_FILE=/tmp/abache
[[ -p $FIFO_FILE ]] && rm $FIFO_FILE
mkfifo $FIFO_FILE

# Serve always
while true; do
  # shellcheck disable=SC2002  # Useless cat
  cat "$FIFO_FILE" | nc -l $PORT | while read -r line; do
    # Log
    echo "Get: at $(date)  $line"

    # Clause: Only respond to GET
    if ! echo "$line" | grep -q '^GET '; then continue; fi

    FILEPATH=$(echo "$line" | awk '{print $2}'| sed 's/%20/ /')
    FILEPATH=${FILEPATH:1}

    [[ -z "$FILEPATH" ]] && FILEPATH="."
    CONTENT="Error 404: Bad URL <= $FILEPATH"

    # Send file or direcotry content
    if [[ -e "$FILEPATH" ]];  then
      if [[ -f "$FILEPATH" ]]; then serve_file; else serve_dir; fi
    fi
    echo -e "$HEADER$CONTENT" > $FIFO_FILE
    break
  done
done

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function http-static-caddy() {
    caddy file-server -browse -listen "0.0.0.0:${1:-8000}"
}

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@teknoraver teknoraver commented Nov 30, 2020

bash one liner using nc:

nc -klp 8080 -c 'read get file http ; echo "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" ; echo ;
cat ".$file"'

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@diguage diguage commented Dec 1, 2020

caddy file-server -root e:\the-path -listen 0.0.0.0:8000 -browse

///

caddy
v2.2.1 h1:Q62GWHMtztnvyRU+KPOpw6fNfeCD3SkwH7SfT1Tgt2c=

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@cameronkerrnz cameronkerrnz commented Dec 16, 2020

    There is netcat in almost any *nix OS

Good bonus of using netcat for this is that is that you see all of
the request headers, which is useful if studying integration with
regard to SSO mechanisms.

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@akvadrako akvadrako commented Dec 30, 2020

With a 7MB docker image:

docker run -u `id -u` -p 8043:8043 -v $PWD:/srv/http pierrezemb/gostatic

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@cfjedimaster cfjedimaster commented Jan 29, 2021

httpster (npm i -g httpster)

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@gomako gomako commented Jan 30, 2021

Browser Sync
npm install -g browser-sync
browser-sync start
Many options for watching and reloading on file change, serving
directories etc.

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@vuchkov vuchkov commented Jan 30, 2021

+1 for https://httpbin.org/:

Run locally: $ docker run -p 80:80 kennethreitz/httpbin

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Haskell :

ciao : https://github.com/ocramz/ciao

Install : stack install

Serve CWD on default port 3000 : ciao -d ${CWD}
" on port 80 (must run as root): ciao -p 80 -d ${CWD}

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@andresvia andresvia commented Feb 9, 2021

socat

socat -v TCP-LISTEN:8080,crlf,reuseaddr,fork 'SYSTEM:echo HTTP/1.0 200;echo Server\: socat hack;echo Content-Type\: text/plain;echo;echo ok'

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@vistun vistun commented Feb 28, 2021

This a good one @vandot
edited below, works with semicolons

    It still oneliner :)
    golang
    echo 'package main; import "net/http"; func main() {fs :=
    http.FileServer(http.Dir(".")); http.Handle("/", fs);
    http.ListenAndServe(":8000", nil)}' > main.go; go run main.go; rm
    main.go

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@textprotocol textprotocol commented Apr 2, 2021

ucspi-tcp text://protocol server.

# tcpserver -v -c42 -o -D -H -P -l 0 -R 127.0.0.1 1961 timeout 1 ..
/../bin/publictext

https://github.com/textprotocol/publictext

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@johnwyles johnwyles commented May 13, 2021

@lethalman

    I'd like to request a bash http server using /dev/tcp, anybody
    has a one-liner for that?

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/49947

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@marin-liovic marin-liovic commented May 13, 2021 *
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replace all of the npm install with npx for a oneliner, e.g. npx
superstatic -p 8000

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@eikes eikes commented May 13, 2021

    PowerShell

    $Hso=New-Object Net.HttpListener;$Hso.Prefixes.Add("http://+:8000/");$Hso.Start();While ($Hso.IsListening){$HC=$Hso.GetContext();$HRes=$HC.Response;$HRes.Headers.Add("Content-Type","text/plain");$Buf=[Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes((GC (Join-Path $Pwd ($HC.Request).RawUrl)));$HRes.ContentLength64=$Buf.Length;$HRes.OutputStream.Write($Buf,0,$Buf.Length);$HRes.Close()};$Hso.Stop()

    PowerShell from cmd.exe

    PowerShell.exe -nop -enc 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
AuAFMAdABvAHAAKAApAA==

What a handy one-liner!

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@rjmunro rjmunro commented May 13, 2021

Note that if you want to share something with another machine, most
of the solutions that bind to localhost or 127.0.0.1 won't work.
Normally if you change localhost or 127.0.0.1 to 0, it will listen on
all interfaces so you can download something from another machine.

E.g. change:

php -S 127.0.0.1:8000

to:

php -S 0:8000

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@radiosilence radiosilence commented May 13, 2021

    npx serve

Yep, this is probably the easiest

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@radiosilence radiosilence commented May 13, 2021

    npx serve

Yep, this is probably the easiest

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@mmazzarolo mmazzarolo commented May 13, 2021

With serverino:

npx serverino --port 8000

Use --secure to automatically generate a certificate and serve on SSL
(at https://localhost:8000).

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@pimbrouwers pimbrouwers commented May 13, 2021

With Sergio - a Kestrel wrapper using Argu:

sergio

This will serve the current directory at https://[::]:8080.

To specify listener details:

sergio --listener localhost 8080

To display all options:

sergio --help

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@dbohdan dbohdan commented May 13, 2021

Tcl

You will need Tcl 8.6 with Tcllib 1.19 or later.

echo 'package require httpd 4; ::httpd::server create HTTPD port 8000 myaddr 127.0.0.1 doc_root [pwd]; vwait forever' | tclsh

Credit to @rkeene.

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@darkblue-b darkblue-b commented May 13, 2021

C99

klange/cgiserver

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@vi vi commented May 13, 2021 *
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websocat can serve specific explicit list of files on explicit URLs
with explicit Content-Types.

websocat -s 1234 -F /index.html:text/html:./index.html -F /script.js:text/javascript:/path/to/thescript.js

There is no ability to automatically include more files based on
existence on the filesystem, but sometimes 100% explicit approach may
be beneficial.

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@carlosneves0 carlosneves0 commented May 13, 2021 *
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docker run --rm --volume "$(pwd):/www:ro" --publish 80:80 docker.io/p3terx/darkhttpd:1.13 /www

docker image ls --format 'table {{.Repository}}:{{.Tag}}\t{{.Size}}' p3terx/darkhttpd:1.13
REPOSITORY:TAG          SIZE
p3terx/darkhttpd:1.13   91.7kB

---------------------------------------------------------------------

docker run --rm --volume "$(pwd):/usr/share/nginx/html:ro" --publish 80:80 docker.io/library/nginx:1.20.0-alpine

docker image ls --format 'table {{.Repository}}:{{.Tag}}\t{{.Size}}' nginx:1.20.0-alpine
REPOSITORY:TAG        SIZE
nginx:1.20.0-alpine   22.6MB

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@lpereira lpereira commented May 13, 2021

Lwan can be used as an one-liner web server, too: lwan -r /path/to/
files/to/serve.

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