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Posted by Brian van Vlymen
Brian van Vlymen
12,637 Points

How come my terminal does not reconziged python-m?

I open in to my terminal and put "python-m simpleHTTPServer and it said command not found?

is that Because I have not install software python web server?

1 Answer

Brian van Vlymen
Brian van Vlymen
12,637 Points
Brian van Vlymen
Brian van Vlymen
12,637 Points

its called, Really Simple HTTP Server with Python

If you need a quick web server running and you don't want to mess with setting up apache or something similar, then Python can help. Python comes with a simple builtin HTTP server. With the help of this little HTTP server you can turn any directory in your system into your web server directory. The only thing you need to have installed is Python.

Practically speaking this is very useful to share files inside your local network. Implementing this tiny but hugely useful HTTP server is very simple, its just a single line command.

Assume that I would like to share the directory /home/hisam and my IP address is 192.168.1.2

Open up a terminal and type:

$ cd /home/somedir $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer That's it! Now your http server will start in port 8000. You will get the message:

Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ... Now open a browser and type the following address:

http://192.168.1.2:8000 You can also access it via:

http://127.0.0.1:8000 If the directory has a file named index.html, that file will be served as the initial file. If there is no index.html, then the files in the directory will be listed.