ServeThis

An escript that serves the current directory over HTTP.

I didn't want to have to use python -m SimpleHTTPServer anymore so I made this. It's basically exactly the same thing, except ~10 times faster, and it supports etag caching. Great for previewing what your generated ExDoc looks like for your project by running it in /doc.

Should definitely work on Linux and Mac OS X, but untested on Windows. Let me know if it works for you!

Installation

If you have Elixir 1.4 or above,

mix escript.install hex serve_this

If you have Elixir 1.3 or above,

mix escript.install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/antipax/serve_this/master/serve_this

If you don't trust me, you can also clone this repository, read the code, and then run this yourself:

MIX_ENV=prod mix escript.build, escript.install

Otherwise, download or build the serve_this escript and place it somewhere in your path.

Usage

After installation, simply run serve_this to serve the current directory on port 8000.

You can use the PORT environment variable to alter the server port from the default, which is 8000.

If you access a directory, you will receive a listing, unless a file named index.html is present, in which case it will be served instead.