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+From time to time I have the need to make the contents of a directory available
+via HTTP. There are a few ways to achieve this. If its content you want to
+access frequently you might set up a virtual host in Apache or nginx. For more
+ad-hoc needs the options include [Python's SimpleHTTPServer][python] module,
+which is part of the standard library:
+
+    python -m SimpleHTTPServer
+
+[python]: http://docs.python.org/library/simplehttpserver.html
+
+And [mongoose]. A cross-platform (Windows, \*nix), minimal web server written in
+C without any external dependencies. In its simplest case you run mongoose from
+the directory to be served. If more advanced usage is required such as SSL,
+authorisation or CGI these can be enabled on the command line or in a
+configuration file.
+
+[mongoose]: http://code.google.com/p/mongoose/
+
+Both SimpleHTTPServer and mongoose support directory listings and index
+files out of the box.

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+--- 
+title: Ad-Hoc Webserver in a Directory
+extra: Options for quickly serving the content of a directory via HTTP.
+kind: article
+section: technical
+created_at: 2011-01-26 03:33:00
+keywords: 
+- mongoose
+- web
+- http
+- server
+- python
+short_url: http://bit.ly/gOKp1J