Access local files from locally running http server

Question

I want to access files in my local machine by using urls. For example "file:///usr/local/home/thapaliya/constants.py". What would be the best way to achieve this?

Answer 1

Use simple HTTP server:

  python -m http.server 8000

Or for Python 2:

  python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html

Answer 2

I copied from orszacky's answer for the similar question:

A little http server locally.

For Windows, the easiest is to install http-server globally using node's package manager:

npm install -g http-server

Then simply run http-server in any of your project directories:

C:\my_project> http-server  

You can also use Python in Windows, and follow the instruction below:

For Linux, since Python is usually available in most Linux distributions,

run python -m SimpleHTTPServer 

in your project directory, and you can load your page on http://localhost:8000

In Python 3 the SimpleHTTPServer module has been merged into http.server, so the new command is

python3 -m http.server.

Answer 3

1. keep the files in a some folder which you want to access from a localhost

2. In command prompt go to that location and type python -m http.server 8080

3. now type localhost :8080 in browser you will able to access files in that folder

4. if u want to use some js files for paticular html files then <script src="http://localhost:8080/main.js"</script> make sure you run this program on another port

Answer 4

Had the same need and have been searching for something simple but more versatile than python's built-in HTTP server (which is meant for debugging only and can't do range requests, i.e. doesn't handle streaming video properly).

Ended up writing a simple Web UI wrapper for caddy2 which relies on caddy's ability to return directory listings as JSON so the entire logic is browser-side. The main intent is to support audio/video playing in one frame while browsing related HTML/PDF or text in another split frame (there is some simple mapping with regexes for matching multimedia files with the related text files).

• https://github.com/glowinthedark/mediabro4caddy

^{The old and currently unmaintained version is using python's built-in HTTP server which was extended to support range requests.}