What is a faster alternative to Python s http server or SimpleHTTPServer

Question

Python s http server  or SimpleHTTPServer for Python 2  is a great way of serve the contents of the current directory from the command line  python -m http server  However  as far as web servers go  it s very slooooow    It behaves as though it s single threaded  and occasionally causes timeout errors when loading JavaScript AMD modules using RequireJS  It can take five to ten seconds to load a simple page with no images  What s a faster alternative that is just as convenient

User · Answer

I recommend  Twisted  http   twistedmatrix com      an event-driven networking engine written in Python and licensed under the open source  MIT license    It s cross-platform and was preinstalled on OS X 10 5 to 10 12  Amongst other things you can start up a simple web server in the current directory with   twistd -no web --path     Details  Explanation of Options  see twistd --help for more    -n  --nodaemon       don t daemonize  don t use default umask of 0077 -o  --no save        do not save state on shutdown    web  is a Command that runs a simple web server on top of the Twisted async engine  It also accepts command line options  after the  web  command - see twistd web --help for more      --path               lt path gt  is either a specific file or a directory to be                       set as the root of the web server  Use this if you                       have a directory full of HTML  cgi  php3  epy  or rpy                       files or any other files that you want to be served up                       raw    There are also a bunch of other commands such as   conch            A Conch SSH service  dns              A domain name server  ftp              An FTP server  inetd            An inetd 8  replacement  mail             An email service     etc   Installation  Ubuntu  sudo apt-get install python-twisted-web  or python-twisted for the full engine    Mac OS-X  comes preinstalled on 10 5 - 10 12  or is available in MacPorts and through Pip   sudo port install py-twisted   Windows  installer available for download at http   twistedmatrix com    HTTPS  Twisted can also utilise security certificates to encrypt the connection  Use this with your existing --path and --port  for plain HTTP  options   twistd -no web -c cert pem -k privkey pem --https 4433

User · Answer

Here s another  It s a Chrome Extension  Once installed you can run it by creating a new tab in Chrome and clicking the apps button near the top left  It has a simple gui  Click choose folder  then click the http   127 0 0 1 8887 link    https   www youtube com watch v AK6swHiPtew

User · Answer

I like live-server  It is fast and has a nice live reload feature  which is very convenient during developpement   Usage is very simple   cd   Sites  live-server   By default it creates a server with IP 127 0 0 1 and port 8080   http   127 0 0 1 8080   If port 8080 is not free  it uses another port   http   127 0 0 1 52749   http   127 0 0 1 52858   If you need to see the web server on other machines in your local network  you can check what is your IP and use   live-server --host 192 168 1 121   And here is a script that automatically grab the IP address of the default interface  It works on macOS only   If you put it in  bash profile  the live-server command will automatically launch the server with the correct IP          Get IP address of default interface     function getIPofDefaultInterface         local    resultvar  1        Get default route interface     if   route -n get 0 0 0 0 2 gt  dev null   awk   interface     print  2        if   -n   if     then               Get IP of the default route interface             local   IP    ipconfig getifaddr  if               eval    resultvar      IP       else           Echo  No default route found          eval    resultvar   0 0 0 0       fi    alias getIP  getIPofDefaultInterface IP  echo  IP          live-server   https   www npmjs com package live-server     alias live-server  getIPofDefaultInterface IP  amp  amp  live-server --host  IP

User · Answer

Yet another node based simple command line server  https   github com greggman servez-cli  Written partly in response to http-server having issues  particularly on windows   installation  Install node js then  npm install -g servez   usage  servez  options   path    With no path it serves the current folder   By default it serves index html for folder paths if it exists  It serves a directory listing for folders otherwise  It also serves CORS headers  You can optionally turn on basic authentication with --username somename --password somepass and you can serve https

User · Answer

http-server for node js is very convenient  and is a lot faster than Python s SimpleHTTPServer  This is primarily because it uses asynchronous IO for concurrent handling of requests  instead of serialising requests  Installation Install node js if you haven t already  Then use the node package manager  npm  to install the package  using the -g option to install globally   If you re on Windows you ll need a prompt with administrator permissions  and on Linux OSX you ll want to sudo the command  npm install http-server -g  This will download any required dependencies and install http-server  Use Now  from any directory  you can type  http-server  path   options   Path is optional  defaulting to   public if it exists  otherwise     Options are  defaults    -p The port number to listen on  8080  -a The host address to bind to  localhost  -i Display directory index pages  True  -s or --silent Silent mode won t log to the console -h or --help Displays help message and exits  So to serve the current directory on port 8000  type  http-server -p 8000

User · Answer

go 1 0 includes a http server  amp  util for serving files with a few lines of code   package main  import        fmt    log    net http     func main         fmt Println  Serving files in the current directory on port 8080       http Handle      http FileServer http Dir            err    http ListenAndServe   8080   nil      if err    nil           log Fatal  ListenAndServe     err            Run this source using go run myserver go or to build an executable go build myserver go

User · Answer

Try webfs  it s tiny and doesn t depend on having a platform like node js or python installed

User · Answer

If you use Mercurial  you can use the built in HTTP server  In the folder you wish to serve up   hg serve   From the docs   export the repository via HTTP      Start a local HTTP repository browser and pull server       By default  the server logs accesses to stdout and errors to     stderr  Use the  -A  and  -E  options to log to files   options    -A --accesslog       name of access log file to write to  -d --daemon          run server in background     --daemon-pipefds  used internally by daemon mode  -E --errorlog        name of error log file to write to  -p --port            port to listen on  default  8000   -a --address         address to listen on  default  all interfaces      --prefix          prefix path to serve from  default  server root   -n --name            name to show in web pages  default  working dir      --webdir-conf     name of the webdir config file  serve more than one repo      --pid-file        name of file to write process ID to     --stdio           for remote clients  -t --templates       web templates to use     --style           template style to use  -6 --ipv6            use IPv6 in addition to IPv4     --certificate     SSL certificate file  use  hg -v help serve  to show global options

User · Answer

Also consider devd a small webserver written in go  Binaries for many platforms are available here    devd -ol path to files to serve   It s small  fast  and provides some interesting optional features like live-reloading when your files change

User · Answer

Using Servez as a server   Download Servez Install It  Run it Choose the folder to serve Pick  Start  Go to http   localhost 8080 or pick  Launch Browser      Note  I threw this together because Web Server for Chrome is going away since Chrome is removing support for apps and because I support art students who have zero experience with the command line

User · Answer

I found python -m http server unreliable   some responses would take seconds   Now I use a server called Ran https   github com m3ng9i ran     Ran  a simple static web server written in Go

User · Answer

If you have PHP installed you could use the builtin server   php -S 0 8080

User · Answer

give polpetta a try         npm install -g polpetta   then you can      polpetta   folder   and you are ready to go  -

[command-line] What is a faster alternative to Python's http.server (or SimpleHTTPServer)?

Details

Installation

HTTPS

Examples related to command-line

Examples related to httpserver

Examples related to command-line-tool

Examples related to simplehttpserver