Simple file server to serve current directory

Question

I'm looking for a dead simple bin that I can launch up in the shell and have it serve the current directory (preferably not ..), with maybe a `-p` for specifying port. As it should be a development server, it should by default allow connections from localhost only, maybe with an option to specify otherwise. The simpler, the better. Not sure which tags to use here.

Accepted Answer

```
python3 -m http.server
```

or if you don't want to use the default port 8000

```
python3 -m http.server 3333
```

or if you want to allow connections from localhost only

```
python3 -m http.server --bind 127.0.0.1
```

See the docs.

The equivalent Python 2 commands are

```
python -m SimpleHTTPServer

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 3333
```

There is no `--bind` option.

See the Python 2 docs.

Simple file server to serve current directory

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