http-server is a simple, zero-configuration command-line static HTTP server. It is powerful enough for production usage, but it's simple and hackable enough to be used for testing, local development and learning.

Using npx you can run the script without installing it first:

npx http-server [path] [options] 

npm install --global http-server 

This will install http-server globally so that it may be run from the command line anywhere.

brew install http-server 

npm install http-server 

Note: a public image is not provided currently, but you can build one yourself with the provided Dockerfile.

1. Create an image

   docker build -t my-image . 

2. Run a container

   docker run -p 8080:8080 -v "${pwd}:/public" my-image 

   In the example above we're serving the directory ./ (working directory). If you wanted to serve ./test you'd replace ${pwd} with ${pwd}/test.

 http-server [path] [options] 

[path] defaults to ./public if the folder exists, and ./ otherwise.

Now you can visit http://localhost:8080 to view your server

Note: Caching is on by default. Add -c-1 as an option to disable caching.

• index.html will be served as the default file to any directory requests.
• 404.html will be served if a file is not found. This can be used for Single-Page App (SPA) hosting to serve the entry page.

To implement a catch-all redirect, use the index page itself as the proxy with:

http-server --proxy http://localhost:8080? 

Note the ? at the end of the proxy URL. Thanks to @houston3 for this clever hack!

First, you need to make sure that openssl is installed correctly, and you have key.pem and cert.pem files. You can generate them using this command:

openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -new -nodes -x509 -days 3650 -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem

You will be prompted with a few questions after entering the command. Use 127.0.0.1 as value for Common name if you want to be able to install the certificate in your OS's root certificate store or browser so that it is trusted.

This generates a cert-key pair and it will be valid for 3650 days (about 10 years).

Then you need to run the server with -S for enabling SSL and -C for your certificate file.

http-server -S -C cert.pem

If you wish to use a passphrase with your private key you can include one in the openssl command via the -passout parameter (using password of foobar)

e.g. openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -passout pass:foobar -keyout key.pem -x509 -days 365 -out cert.pem

For security reasons, the passphrase will only be read from the NODE_HTTP_SERVER_SSL_PASSPHRASE environment variable.

This is what should be output if successful:

Starting up http-server, serving ./ through https http-server settings: COOP: disabled CORS: disabled Cache: 3600 seconds Connection Timeout: 120 seconds Directory Listings: visible AutoIndex: visible Serve GZIP Files: false Serve Brotli Files: false Default File Extension: none Available on: https://127.0.0.1:8080 https://192.168.1.101:8080 https://192.168.1.104:8080 Hit CTRL-C to stop the server

Checkout this repository locally, then:

$ npm i $ npm start

Now you can visit http://localhost:8080 to view your server

You should see the turtle image in the screenshot above hosted at that URL. See the ./public folder for demo content.