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How to Serve Local Files and Folders with Python Based Web Server ?

Posted on February 5, 2022March 13, 2022 by Rick

If you need to serve a bunch of local static files like html, css, js, images, videos, fonts, etc. over http (in a browser), lying somewhere in one of your filesystem directories, Python’s http.server module can get you up and running quickly instead of installing and setting up (configuring) a more sophisticated web server like […]

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Serve Local Files and Folders from any Directory with Node Based Web Server

Posted on February 5, 2022March 13, 2022 by Rick

A lot of times we just want to quickly serve a directory full of static assets over a web server so that we could quickly do some testing in the browser. Instead of setting up a full blown web server like Apache or Nginx and configuring it accordingly, we could simply use the http-server Node.js […]

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Run a PHP Web Server to Quickly Serve Local Files and Folders From Any Directory

Posted on February 5, 2022March 13, 2022 by Rick

The most basic requirement while working on websites and web apps is the ability to see our results in a web browser. We do this by serving the local source code via a HTTP web server and then visiting http://localhost in our browser to see the results. Traditionally we’d install and configure web servers like […]

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