Simple Webserver
Simple webserver
Running a Simple Web server on PCLinuxOS
1. Open a console and change Directory that you want you Simple Server to run from.
2. Now enter the command to start your Simple Server
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
If you wish to change the port that's used start the program via:
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080
or a port number you wish to use.
Example: I named my Directory SimpleServer. In a console window, I started it using the following.
[dwmoar@prototype Pictures]$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8080 ...
Now opening your favorite web browser enter the following URL
You should see your index.html file. If you do not have a index.html file in the directory you will see a listing of all the files in the directory.
with a index.html file
No index.html file present
It will even work from a public IP
Simple Server does NOT replace Apache or other servers such as lighttpd.
It doesn't support php, but it is a quick way to test out your html, without setting up a bigger resource hungry web server.
And there you go. Happy web serving!
