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How it looks like?

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Command Line Arguments

Simple HTTP(s) Server 0.6.3USAGE:    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 informationOPTIONS:    -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]

Website hosting example

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 asindex.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.

Installation

Download binary

Goto Download

windows-64bit
osx-64bit
linux-64bit

Install by cargo

# Install Rustcurl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf| sh# Install simple-http-servercargo install simple-http-serverrehashsimple-http-server -h

Features

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