How to quickly enable a low-resource webserver

Have you ever wanted to just start a Webserver in a second, for a quick and dirty task but didn’t want to install a full LAMP/LEMP stack? This is possible with the help of a python module and here it is in action:

costin@ubuntu:~$ mkdir testare
costin@ubuntu:~$ cd testare/
costin@ubuntu:~/testare$ echo MERGE! > index.html
costin@ubuntu:~/testare$ pushd $PWD; python3 -m http.server; popd
~/testare ~/testare
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/) ...
192.168.1.126 - - [29/Apr/2020 14:16:10] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -
192.168.1.126 - - [29/Apr/2020 14:16:10] code 404, message File not found
192.168.1.126 - - [29/Apr/2020 14:16:10] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 -

root@ubuntu:~# curl http://192.168.1.94:8000/
MERGE!

Oh and this is cross-platform, of course. If you have python installed on a Windows machine.

Not to mention that this is possible even from low-priviledge user accounts.

For more details about this module please see the official documentation.