http-server
is a simple, zero-configuration command-line http server. It is powerful enough for production usage, but it's simple and hackable enough to be used for testing, local development, and learning.
Installation is via npm
. If you don't have npm
yet:
curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
Once you have npm
:
npm install http-server -g
This will install http-server
globally so that it may be run from the command line.
If you cannot install npm
, you can always clone the source directly:
git clone git://github.com/nodejitsu/http-server.git
cd http-server
node bin/http-server
http-server [path] [options]
The entire /mypath tree will now be available at http://localhost:8080/
.
-p
Port to listen for connections on (defaults to 8080)
-a
Address to bind to (defaults to 'localhost')
-i
Display autoIndex (defaults to 'True')
-s
or --silent
In silent mode, log messages aren't logged to the console.
-h
or --help
Displays a list of commands and exits.