Temporary webserver tip

[Spyhop]

Here's a way to quickly set up a temporary webserver to share the contents of the current working directory with others as a directory listing webpage.

#!/bin/bash
LOGFILE="webserver_log_$(date +%s).txt"
python -c "import SimpleHTTPServer;SimpleHTTPServer.test()" &> $LOGFILE

1. [Setup] Save the code snippet as webserver.sh
2. [Setup] Make it executable. chmod +x webserver.sh
3. [Setup] Put it somewhere in your PATH so that you can use it from any directory.

1. Run it: webserver.sh
2. Stop it: press Ctrl-C.

• People on your LAN can view it at http://yourhostname:8000
• People across the internet can view it if you set your router to forward the external port 80 to youriporhostname:8000
• You could use DynDns to get a permanent URL for yourself so that you don't have to give people your current IP address (e.g. http://bob.dyndns.org/)