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This is hardly in the category of "lightweight and secure", but for impromptu stuff, this Ruby+Rack one-liner serves directory listings and static files from th

This is hardly in the category of "lightweight and secure", but for impromptu stuff, this Ruby+Rack one-liner serves directory listings and static files from the current directory: ruby -e 'require "rack"; include Rack; \ Server.start :app => Directory.new(".", \ Static.new(nil, :urls => ["/"], :root => "."))'

dylz 13y ago
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
- pekk 13y ago
  although that server is very horrible
  - hcarvalhoalves 13y ago
    Works fine for some tests, but it's single threaded. If you need concurrency: twistd -no web --path=.
    - stock_toaster 13y ago
      or in go: package main import ( "flag" "net/http" ) var serveDir = flag.String("d", ".", "Directory to serve from") func main() { flag.Parse() panic(http.ListenAndServe("127.0.0.1:8000", http.FileServer( http.Dir(*serveDir)))) }
    - deathanatos 13y ago
      Perhaps, but the use case it usually finds is "I need a webserver, here. Now." Python is nearly always installed, and that depends on nothing but the standard library. You can stick an alias in your dotfiles (I have, it's called "serve-this") and not have to worry about having twisted¹ getting to wherever your dotfiles get put. (I distribute my dotfiles over git/github, so it's really easy to move them around. More work to get Twisted.) ¹Or Ruby… or Go…
      - hcarvalhoalves 13y ago
        Twisted is pre-installed on OS X and various Linux distributions...
  - Orangeair 13y ago
    What's wrong with it? Honestly, I don't know. I know Python probably isn't a great choice for performance reasons, but anything else? It's super easy to build off and configure. Seems fine for a beginner (which I admittedly am; hence my asking).
    - masklinn 13y ago
      Main issue is it's single threaded. So if you use it to share big files with an other machines, only 1 file can be downloaded at a time and a download will block browsing of available files.
      - lucian1900 13y ago
        It's also very buggy. Its only excuse is being old.
- eik3_de 13y ago
  the minimal Ruby equivalent would be ruby -run -ehttpd . Here's a handy snippet for bashrc: function S { ruby -run -ehttpd . -p${1-8080} # default to port 8080 unless given as parameter }
troels 13y ago
This is mine: #!/bin/bash unlink /Library/WebServer/Documents ln -s "$(pwd)" /Library/WebServer/Documents echo "http://localhost/ mounted on $(pwd)" Of course, it's only "lightweight" in as far as you already have Apache installed and running.

dylz 13y ago

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

pekk 13y ago
although that server is very horrible
- hcarvalhoalves 13y ago
  Works fine for some tests, but it's single threaded. If you need concurrency: twistd -no web --path=.
  - stock_toaster 13y ago
    or in go: package main import ( "flag" "net/http" ) var serveDir = flag.String("d", ".", "Directory to serve from") func main() { flag.Parse() panic(http.ListenAndServe("127.0.0.1:8000", http.FileServer( http.Dir(*serveDir)))) }
  - deathanatos 13y ago
    Perhaps, but the use case it usually finds is "I need a webserver, here. Now." Python is nearly always installed, and that depends on nothing but the standard library. You can stick an alias in your dotfiles (I have, it's called "serve-this") and not have to worry about having twisted¹ getting to wherever your dotfiles get put. (I distribute my dotfiles over git/github, so it's really easy to move them around. More work to get Twisted.) ¹Or Ruby… or Go…
    - hcarvalhoalves 13y ago
      Twisted is pre-installed on OS X and various Linux distributions...
- Orangeair 13y ago
  What's wrong with it? Honestly, I don't know. I know Python probably isn't a great choice for performance reasons, but anything else? It's super easy to build off and configure. Seems fine for a beginner (which I admittedly am; hence my asking).
  - masklinn 13y ago
    Main issue is it's single threaded. So if you use it to share big files with an other machines, only 1 file can be downloaded at a time and a download will block browsing of available files.
    - lucian1900 13y ago
      It's also very buggy. Its only excuse is being old.
eik3_de 13y ago
the minimal Ruby equivalent would be ruby -run -ehttpd . Here's a handy snippet for bashrc: function S { ruby -run -ehttpd . -p${1-8080} # default to port 8080 unless given as parameter }

troels 13y ago

This is mine: #!/bin/bash unlink /Library/WebServer/Documents ln -s "$(pwd)" /Library/WebServer/Documents echo "http://localhost/ mounted on $(pwd)" Of course, it's only "lightweight" in as far as you already have Apache installed and running.