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In Python version 3, the module was merged into http.server. Gentlemen, change your aliases.
This works on all versions of python 2.X.
Tested on Linux and bundled python versions on Mac OSX and Solaris / UNIX
Note: Serves globally on port 8000.
Ctrl+c to stop.
Don't start the server and leave it on a internet connected machine. :)
An alternative to: python -m SimpleHTTPServer for Arch Linux
source: http://archlinux.me/dusty/2010/01/15/simplehttpserver-in-python-3/
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To use a different port:
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080Many thx to the both of you and python developers :)
python -m SimpleHTTPServer+Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...
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Cool. I'd been using webfs for this.
http://linux.bytesex.org/misc/webfs.html
This is great way to get something to open without configuring webserver.
I love it.
See also CGIHTTPServer
Awesome!!
How to kill the servers? :P
I changed this up a bit and added it to my .bashrc. My function also logs into my web server via ssh and forwards a port back to me. It also copies the URL to my primary selection.
webshare () {local SSHHOST=hostname.of.serverpython -m SimpleHTTPServer &echo http://$SSHHOST:8000 | xclipecho Press enter to stop sharing, http://$SSHHOST:8000 copied to primary selection/usr/bin/ssh -R 8000:127.0.0.1:8000 $SSHHOST 'read'
kill `jobs -p | head`}Neat. I've been using a more complicated system:
# Create an index.html, trying to preserve names with whitespace
du -a | awk ?{ print $2,$3,$4,$5}? | \ until [[ -z $L ]];
do
read L;
echo ??$L??;
done > ./index.html;
#Instantiate an SSL web server on port 8080
openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout \
server.pem -out server.pem -subj ?/C=XX/O=XX/OU=XX/CN=XX?;
openssl s_server -accept 8080 -WWW
Wow, quoting went horribly wrong there.
# Create an index.html, trying to preserve names with whitespace
du -a | awk '{ print $2,$3,$4,$5}' | until [[ -z $L ]];
do
read L;
echo ''$L'';
done > ./index.html;
#Instantiate an SSL web server on port 8080
openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -keyout \
server.pem -out server.pem -subj ?/C=XX/O=XX/OU=XX/CN=XX?;
openssl s_server -accept 8080 -WWW
nice ! tfs
all of the hacking around detracts from the beautiful simplicity of this command. I'm totally in love with this. I'd up-vote it a 100 times if I could. Nice work.
nice
awesome
This is a great trick!
Does anyone know similar trick that invoke simple FTP server?
If you don't know how to kill the server (^c doesn't work) try the following
kill `ps | grep SimpleHTTP | grep -v grep | awk '{print $1}'`In order to kill the server you can try:
killall pythonkillall python is too brutal. It may kill some useful python process accidently .
Just run to view
firefox http://$HOSTNAME:8000/This is awesome. Does anyone know how to do this with Python 2.3 or earlier?
http://ubuntuguide.net/http-server-support-uploading-files-from-windows-in-ubuntu
I found a python script that support uploading files. It's useful.
If the default port 8000 already in use, you can specify port on commandline:
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 9000
I tried using this to quickly send a folder full of games to some people on my LAN, but it would only let one person download at a time. Try
sudo apt-get install python-twistd-webtwistd -no webinstead.