Web servers
Running web servers with various languages and tools. All examples here use port 8080, with the exception of the second powershell example which uses port 8000.
Powershell
$Hso=New-Object Net.HttpListener;$Hso.Prefixes.Add("http://+:8080/");$Hso.Start();While ($Hso.IsListening){$HC=$Hso.GetContext();$HRes=$HC.Response;$HRes.Headers.Add("Content-Type","text/plain");$Buf=[Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes((GC (Join-Path $Pwd ($HC.Request).RawUrl)));$HRes.ContentLength64=$Buf.Length;$HRes.OutputStream.Write($Buf,0,$Buf.Length);$HRes.Close()};$Hso.Stop()
# From cmd.exe, uses port 8000
powershell.exe -nop -enc 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
Python 2
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080
Python 3
python -m http.server 8080
Twisted (Python)
twistd -n web -p 8080 --path .
# Alternative method
python -c 'from twisted.web.server import Site; from twisted.web.static import File; from twisted.internet import reactor; reactor.listenTCP(8080, Site(File("."))); reactor.run()'
Ruby 1.9.2+
ruby -run -ehttpd . -p8080
Ruby
ruby -rwebrick -e'WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(:Port => 8080, :DocumentRoot => Dir.pwd).start'
Adsf (Ruby)
gem install adsf
adsf -p 8080
Sinatra (Ruby)
gem install sinatra
ruby -rsinatra -e'set :public_folder, "."; set :port, 8080'
Perl
cpan HTTP::Server::Brick
perl -MHTTP::Server::Brick -e '$s=HTTP::Server::Brick->new(port=>8080); $s->mount("/"=>{path=>"."}); $s->start'
Plack (Perl)
cpan Plack
plackup -MPlack::App::Directory -e 'Plack::App::Directory->new(root=>".");' -p 8080
Mojolicious (Perl)
cpan Mojolicious::Lite
perl -MMojolicious::Lite -MCwd -e 'app->static->paths->[0]=getcwd; app->start' daemon -l http://*:8080
HTTP-server (Node.js)
npm install -g http-server
http-server -p 8080
Node-static (Node.js)
npm install -g node-static
static -p 8080
PHP (>= 5.4)
php -S 127.0.0.1:8080
Erlang
erl -s inets -eval 'inets:start(httpd,[{server_name,"NAME"},{document_root, "."},{server_root, "."},{port, 8080},{mime_types,[{"html","text/html"},{"htm","text/html"},{"js","text/javascript"},{"css","text/css"},{"gif","image/gif"},{"jpg","image/jpeg"},{"jpeg","image/jpeg"},{"png","image/png"}]}]).'
Busybox httpd
busybox httpd -f -p 8080
Webfs
webfsd -F -p 8080
IIS Express
"C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express\iisexpress.exe" /path:C:\MyWeb /port:8080