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.
Installation via npm
:
npm install http-server -g
This will install http-server
globally so that it may be run from the command line.
http-server [path] [options]
[path]
defaults to ./public
if the folder exists, and ./
otherwise.
mkdir myapp
cd myapp/
jitsu install http-server
If you do not have jitsu
installed you can install it via npm install jitsu -g
node bin/http-server
Now you can visit http://localhost:8080 to view your server
-p
Port to use (defaults to 8080)
-a
Address to use (defaults to 0.0.0.0)
-d
Show directory listings (defaults to 'True')
-i
Display autoIndex (defaults to 'True')
-g
or --gzip
When enabled (defaults to 'False') it will serve ./public/some-file.js.gz
in place of ./public/some-file.js
when a gzipped version of the file exists and the request accepts gzip encoding.
-e
or --ext
Default file extension if none supplied (defaults to 'html')
-s
or --silent
Suppress log messages from output
--cors
Enable CORS via the Access-Control-Allow-Origin
header
-o
Open browser window after starting the server
-c
Set cache time (in seconds) for cache-control max-age header, e.g. -c10 for 10 seconds (defaults to '3600'). To disable caching, use -c-1.
-U
or --utc
Use UTC time format in log messages.
-P
or --proxy
Proxies all requests which can't be resolved locally to the given url. e.g.: -P http://someurl.com
-S
or --ssl
Enable https.
-C
or --cert
Path to ssl cert file (default: cert.pem).
-K
or --key
Path to ssl key file (default: key.pem).
-r
or --robots
Provide a /robots.txt (whose content defaults to 'User-agent: *\nDisallow: /')
-h
or --help
Print this list and exit.