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Created April 19, 2019 01:37
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Starting and stopping simple HTTP server in background on Linux. After starting server and closing terminal, server should keep running
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start-stop-server-in-background.sh
# starting simple HTTP server with Python in background
screen -d -m python -m SimpleHTTPServer 7777
# or for Python 3.x
screen -d -m python -m http.server 7777
# killing process running with screen in background
kill -9 `top -n 1 | pgrep screen`
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