Simple HTTP Server for testing a static site
July 14, 2012
I can’t believe I didn’t know about this earlier, but if you have html/css/js files for a static website in directory /path/to/foo, you can serve it on port 9000 (or whatever) by running
cd /path/to/foo
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 9000
It’s nice because file:// urls don’t let you do nice things like ajax, etc.
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Daniel Roberts
Senior Engineer
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