Run a basic web server locally.

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 07:00:00 +0000

A few years ago, at the Torbay Tech Jam I was shown a neat way to start up a really basic http web server using python3.

Python 3 Web Server

Using this method I decided to have a go, so that I could share this, as it is linked to this weeks Code Club tutorials.

Note: I am using Debian Linux for this.

So after creating a new directory for the server

mkdir http cd http

I created a new file index.html and added a few basic lines of html to this.



this is a test line

Then from the command line entered:

python3 -m http.server 8080

Note: 8080 is the port number, so you can use something different, the default for http is 80.

Then pointing my web browser at

127.0.0.1:8080

I am able to view the page in the web browser.

Hope this is useful, could be useful for testing out what you are learning with Freecodecamp if you don't want to create Repl for this.

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Run a basic web server locally.

this is a test line