http-server: a command-line http server
dynamic-http-server is a work-in-progress static http server with include functionality. It is a fork of https://github.com/indexzero/http-server
Installing globally:
Installation via npm:
npm install dynamic-http-server -g
This will install dynamic-http-server globally so that it may be run from the command line.
Usage:
dynamic-http-server [path] [options]
OR
dhs [path] [options]
[path] defaults to ./public if the folder exists, and ./ otherwise.
Now you can visit http://localhost:8080 to view your server
Available Options:
-p Port to use (defaults to 8080)
-a Address to use (defaults to 0.0.0.0)
-d Show directory listings (defaults to 'True')
-i Display autoIndex (defaults to 'True')
-e or --ext Default file extension if none supplied (defaults to 'html')
-s or --silent Suppress log messages from output
--cors Enable CORS via the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header
-o Open browser window after starting the server
-c Set cache time (in seconds) for cache-control max-age header, e.g. -c10 for 10 seconds (defaults to '3600'). To disable caching, use -c-1.
-U or --utc Use UTC time format in log messages.
-P or --proxy Proxies all requests which can't be resolved locally to the given url. e.g.: -P http://someurl.com
-S or --ssl Enable https.
-C or --cert Path to ssl cert file (default: cert.pem).
-K or --key Path to ssl key file (default: key.pem).
-r or --robots Provide a /robots.txt (whose content defaults to 'User-agent: *\nDisallow: /')
-h or --help Print this list and exit.
Include:
Include files in your html-files with the following syntax: {{include page.html}}