Simple HTTP(s) Server 0.6.3
USAGE:
simple-http-server [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [--] [root]
FLAGS:
--coep Add "Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy" HTTP header and set it to "require-corp"
--coop Add "Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy" HTTP header and set it to "same-origin"
--cors Enable CORS via the "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header
-h, --help Prints help information
-i, --index Enable automatic render index page [index.html, index.htm]
--nocache Disable http cache
--norange Disable header::Range support (partial request)
--nosort Disable directory entries sort (by: name, modified, size)
-s, --silent Disable all outputs
-u, --upload Enable upload files (multiple select) (CSRF token required)
-V, --version Prints version information
OPTIONS:
-a, --auth <auth> HTTP Basic Auth (username:password)
--cert <cert> TLS/SSL certificate (pkcs#12 format)
--certpass <certpass> TLS/SSL certificate password
-c, --compress <compress>...
Enable file compression: gzip/deflate
Example: -c=js,d.ts
Note: disabled on partial request!
--ip <ip> IP address to bind [default: 0.0.0.0]
-p, --port <port> Port number [default: 8000]
--redirect <redirect> takes a URL to redirect to using HTTP 301 Moved Permanently
-t, --threads <threads> How many worker threads [default: 3]
--try-file <PATH>
serve this file (server root relative) in place of missing files (useful for single page apps) [aliases:
try-file-404]
-l, --upload-size-limit <upload_size_limit> Upload file size limit [bytes] [default: 8000000]
- Point the program to the website folder
- The Home page of the website should be available on the root of the folder
- The Home page should be named as
index.html
simple-http-server -i -p 80 folder-name
This command will use the port 80 (the certified port for HTTP servers), you can change as you wish.
- windows-64bit
- osx-64bit
- linux-64bit
# Install Rust curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh # Install simple-http-server cargo install simple-http-server rehash simple-http-server -h
- Windows support (with colored log)
- Specify listen address (ip, port)
- Specify running threads
- Specify root directory
- Pretty log
- Nginx like directory view (directory entries, link, filesize, modified date)
- Breadcrumb navigation
- (default enabled) Guess mime type
- (default enabled) HTTP cache control
- Sending Last-Modified / ETag
- Replying 304 to If-Modified-Since
- (default enabled) Partial request
- Accept-Ranges: bytes([ByteRangeSpec; length=1])
- [Range, If-Range, If-Match] => [Content-Range, 206, 416]
- (default disabled) Automatic render index page [index.html, index.htm]
- (default disabled) Upload file
- A CSRF token is generated when upload is enabled and must be sent as a parameter when uploading a file
- (default disabled) HTTP Basic Authentication (by username:password)
- Sort by: filename, filesize, modified date
- HTTPS support
- Content-Encoding: gzip/deflate
- Added CORS headers support
- Silent mode