After cding to my folder I enter
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
and get
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...
in reply. But when I hit http://0.0.0.0:8000/test.html
I get a page not found error.
I've also tried
pushd /path/you/want/to/serve; python -m SimpleHTTPServer; popd
taken from this question
When I hit ls I can see the file and the directory. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
You must type in the ip-address of the computer your connecting to for example 192.168.0.2:8000 Change that to the ip-address of your server.
try this in python3
and in your browser this url:
I think the other two answers are trying to make it clear that 0.0.0.0 is not the URL you should be visiting. When a Python web server (like cherrypy for instance) says it is serving on 0.0.0.0 it means it is listening for all TCP traffic that ends up at that machine no matter the hostname or IP that was requested. But, if you change it such that the socket listens on 127.0.0.1 or 'localhost', then unless the request was specifically to that IP/hostname, it won't respond to the request. For example, many times you can use your machine name instead of localhost (ubuntu allows this for example). If your machine name is 'brian' and you have a server listening on 0.0.0.0:8080, you should be able to reach that server with http://brian:8080. But if that server is listening on 'localhost', even though 'brian' is set to point to 'localhost', the server won't receive the message.
You also need to be sure the file really is in the directory you are running the command from. Otherwise, the 404 response is actually correct :)
Good luck!
You should use this link http://127.0.0.1:8000/ and can see all files there
mkdir HTTPServer_dir
cd HTTPServer_dir
python -m SimpleHTTPSever 8000
(or the port you want)http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Done !!!
You could make a simple index.html page inside the HTTPServer_dir so you can see an html page instead of directory listing
Have you tried http://127.0.0.1:8000/ ?
:)