How to run a server on localhost
Objective
Get an http server running as quickly as possible.
Instructions
Here are a few ways to get a server running quickly on localhost (ordered from fastest to slowest):
Go
Compile the following using go build
and run the resulting binary:
package main
import (
"fmt"; "log"; "net/http"
)
func main() {
fmt.Println("Serving files in the current directory on http://localhost:8080")
http.Handle("/", http.FileServer(http.Dir(".")))
err := http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal("ListenAndServe: ", err)
}
}
Alternatively you can run the script using go run
… or you can get hack
Bash
and Go
together and call the script as an executable by prepending the
following (mutated) shebang:
//usr/bin/env go run "$0" "$@"; exit "$?"
Remember to make the script executable with:
chmod 744
Node.js
http-server
Install http-server
using npm
:
npm install http-server -g
Then you can run the server using
http-server
serve
Lately, this has been my go to:
npm install serve -g
Then you can run the server using
serve
Python 3.x
python3 -m http.server
Python 2.x
python2 -m SimpleHTTPServer