Local Servers from the Command Line

gistfile1.sh

# Drop these functions into your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile, wherever you keep your bashy goodness.
# Usage: cd to directory you want to serve up, fire one of these commands, navigate to http://0.0.0.0:{port number here}

# Start an HTTP server from a directory, optionally specifying the port
function serverpy() {
    local port="${1:-8000}"
    open "http://localhost:${port}/"
    # Set the default Content-Type to `text/plain` instead of `application/octet-stream`
    # And serve everything as UTF-8 (although not technically correct, this doesn’t break anything for binary files)
    python -c $'import SimpleHTTPServer;\nmap = SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.extensions_map;\nmap[""] = "text/plain";\nfor key, value in map.items():\n\tmap[key] = value + ";charset=UTF-8";\nSimpleHTTPServer.test();' "$port"
}

# Start a PHP server from a directory, optionally specifying the port
# (Requires PHP 5.4.0+.)
function phpserver() {
	local port="${1:-4000}"
	local ip=$(ipconfig getifaddr en1)
	sleep 1 && open "http://${ip}:${port}/" &
	php -S "${ip}:${port}"
}

# Start webrick server from current directory
function server {
    local port=$1
    : ${port:=3000}
    open "http://localhost:${port}/"
    ruby -rwebrick -e"s = WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(:Port => $port, :DocumentRoot => Dir.pwd, :MimeTypes => WEBrick::HTTPUtils::load_mime_types('/etc/apache2/mime.types')); trap(%q(INT)) { s.shutdown }; s.start"
}

# try go 
# with this super-simple server
# default port is 8000
function goserver() {
    go get -u github.com/fogleman/serve
    port=${1:-8000}
    dir=${2:-"."}
    serve -port "$port" -dir "$dir" & echo open 'localhost:"$port" to see the contents of "$dir'
}