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1. Craig Morrison

   It can be very useful to spin up a quick server.
   php -S localhost:8000 also works in recent versions.

   • Farnabaz

     This command requires PHP 5.4.0 and above

2. Rhys Lloyd

   Requires installation, but with Node:

   npm i -g http-server
   

   Once installed, you can run from any directory:

   http-server
   

   • Umar

     I use “http-server” regularly. It is simpler and easy to remember.

   • samar taj shaikh

     okay i did as you commented in the terminal of my linux OS –

     $ http-server

     but i am getting error as-
     “http-server: command not found”

   • michael

     Oh man. Where has this been all my life. This has been an immense time-saver for me, being able to spin up a standalone server for any given directory, pass some parameters — boom, local server to test on. Thanks for posting this!

3. Eri

   @samar you need to install http-server first:

   npm i -g http-server

   You need npm to install http-server, and to run that npm command you need npm, and to have npm installed you need Node :)

   Install Node
   Install npm
   install http-server

   All 3 of them can be installed with only few lines…

   So google them all.

4. Tim

   npx serve and npx http-server – both work if you have node installed with npm@5.2.0 or greater.

   npx has been around since roughly 2017, and I believe node@8.2.0 was the first version it could be used in (because that is the first version of node using npm@5.2.0 or greater)

5. Rich Werden

   I always use live-server – Like http-server, but includes watching for changes

6. Chris Johnson

   The node.js / NPM commands above can be achieved in one line as per title of article.

   npx serve

7. chandrasekar

   Nice one, thanks for the wonderful work sir.

8. WeakLinks

   Running this python3 -m http.server --cgi 8080 from any preferred file location works awseome,,,actually doing it via termux

9. Hanif

   How to know in the php server’ IP?