HTTPServerPY

Author: Moin Khan

HTTPServerPY: A lightweight static HTTP server written in Python

Introduction

HTTPServerPY is a simple, zero-configuration command-line static HTTP server.

Installation:

Globally via pip

pip install HTTPServerPY

This will install HTTPServerPY globally so that it may be run from the command line anywhere.

Usage:

py -m HTTPServerPY [host] [port] [path] [options]

[host] defaults localhost | 0.0.0.0. [port] defaults 8000. [path] defaults to the current directory ./.

Now you can visit http://localhost:8080 to view your server

Available Options:

| Command | Description | Defaults | | ------------- |-------------|-------------|------| |-p or --port |Port to use. Use -p=8080 to serve at 8080 port| 8000 | |-h or --host |Host to use. Use -h=0.0.0.0 to serve at localhost | 0.0.0.0 | |-pth or --path |Path to serve from. Use --path=./my_folder to serve from my_folder present in current folder| ./ |

Magic Files

• index.html will be served as the default file to any directory requests.
• 404.html will be served if a file is not found.
• 405.html will be served if a requested method is not supported.

Now you can visit http://localhost:8080 to view your server

Contributing

All contributions are welcome. Please create an issue first for any feature request or bug. Then fork the repository, create a branch and make any changes to fix the bug or add the feature and create a pull request. That's it! Thanks!

License

HTTPServerPY is released under the MIT License. Check out the full license here.