Run nginx and serve the current directory contents (without needing a config file), logging to stdout/stderr

nginx.sh

#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -ge 1 ]; then
    PORT=$1
else
    PORT=8000
fi
CONF_PATH=$(mktemp /tmp/nginx-tmp-config.XXXXXXXX) || { echo "Failed to create temp file"; exit 1; }

cat > $CONF_PATH <<- EOF
daemon off;

events {
  worker_connections  1024;
}

http {
  access_log /dev/stdout;
  error_log /dev/stderr;

  types {
    text/html                             html htm shtml;
    text/css                              css;
    image/gif                             gif;
    image/jpeg                            jpeg jpg;
    application/javascript                js;
  }

  server {
    listen $PORT;
    index index.html;
    root  .;

  }
}
EOF

echo "Running on http://127.0.0.1:$PORT/"
nginx -p `pwd` -c $CONF_PATH

# Cleanup when the user hits Ctrl+C
rm $CONF_PATH