http-server: a command-line http server

http-server is a simple, zero-configuration command-line http server. It is powerful enough for production usage, but it's simple and hackable enough to be used for testing, local development, and learning.

This version has been modified to allow the server to drop privileges after startup (for example when started as root).

Installing globally:

Installation via npm. If you don't have npm yet:

 curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

Once you have npm:

 npm install http-server -g

This will install http-server globally so that it may be run from the command line.

Usage:

 http-server [path] [options]

[path] defaults to ./public if the folder exists, and ./ otherwise.

Installing as a node app

 mkdir myapp
 cd myapp/
 jitsu install http-server

If you do not have jitsu installed you can install it via npm install jitsu -g

Usage

Starting http-server locally

 node bin/http-server

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

Deploy http-server to nodejitsu

 jitsu deploy

You will now be prompted for a subdomain to deploy your application on

Available Options:

-p Port to listen for connections on (defaults to 8080)

-u User to switch to after starting (useful if starting as root to serve on ports < 1024)

-g Group to switch to after starting (useful if starting as root to serve on ports < 1024)

-a Address to bind to (defaults to '0.0.0.0')

-i Display autoIndex (defaults to 'True')

-s or --silent In silent mode, log messages aren't logged to the console.

-h or --help Displays a list of commands and exits.

License

connorberry/http-server

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