Simple HTTP Server

Simple HTTP Server with http.server

Open your terminal, change to the directory that will be shared. For example, we want to share our Music folder:

cd $HOME/Music

Write this command to run the server:

python3 -m http.server

If we want the server run on specific port, run the following command instead (custom port, for example 2408):

python3 -m http.server 2408

We will see following output when server successfully launched:

Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 2408 (http://0.0.0.0:2408/) ...

We can access it in browser with URL mentioned OR if we want to access from different device, check our computer’s IP address that run this server with this command (Linux):

hostname -I

or (Windows OS)

ipconfig

then access the server with http://your_ip_addr:2408/ (for example: http://192.168.0.123:2408/).