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Serve current directory tree at http://$HOSTNAME:8000/

Terminal - Serve current directory tree at http://$HOSTNAME:8000/
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
2009-02-05 11:57:43
User: pixelbeat
Functions: python
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Serve current directory tree at http://$HOSTNAME:8000/
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Terminal - Alternatives
twistd -n web --path .
2010-06-06 02:13:56
User: rugina
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Serve current directory tree at http://$HOSTNAME:8080/
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To use a different port:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080
Comment by taoufix 82 weeks ago

Many thx to the both of you and python developers :)

Comment by AmadeusZull 80 weeks ago
python -m SimpleHTTPServer

+Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...

....

Comment by grep 79 weeks and 3 days ago

Cool. I'd been using webfs for this.

http://linux.bytesex.org/misc/webfs.html

Comment by Viaken 77 weeks and 2 days ago

This is great way to get something to open without configuring webserver.

I love it.

Comment by k00pa 76 weeks and 1 day ago

See also CGIHTTPServer

Comment by dstahlke 73 weeks and 3 days ago

Awesome!!

Comment by d4n3sh 72 weeks and 1 day ago

How to kill the servers? :P

Comment by Meeko 72 weeks ago

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.server python -m SimpleHTTPServer & echo http://$SSHHOST:8000 | xclip echo Press enter to stop sharing, http://$SSHHOST:8000 copied to primary selection

/usr/bin/ssh -R 8000:127.0.0.1:8000 $SSHHOST 'read'

kill `jobs -p | head` }
Comment by wonko 68 weeks and 1 day ago

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

Comment by lbonanomi 51 weeks and 3 days ago

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

Comment by lbonanomi 51 weeks and 3 days ago

nice ! tfs

Comment by sazwqa 30 weeks and 4 days ago

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.

Comment by 4fthawaiian 27 weeks and 5 days ago

nice

Comment by warlock 27 weeks and 4 days ago

awesome

Comment by tunguyen 23 weeks and 6 days ago

This is a great trick!

Does anyone know similar trick that invoke simple FTP server?

Comment by yorams70 23 weeks and 5 days ago

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}'`
Comment by jafraldo 19 weeks ago

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