simplehttpserver2 v1.0.0

simplehttpserver2: Simple HTTP Server

Base on simplehttpserver (https://github.com/tikonen/blog/tree/master/simplehttpserver), add reverse proxy feature.

'simpehttpserver' is an simple imitation of Python's SimpleHTTPServer and is intended for testing, development and debugging purposes

Install globally

Install using npm

 npm install simplehttpserver2 -g
 

or using yarn

 yarn global add simplehttpserver2

Usage

Run simplehttpserver2 by a command

 simplehttpserver2 [directory]

[directory] is used as a web root. Default is the current working directory. Server listens the port 8000. Open browser to http://localhost:8000 to view.

Security Consideration. simplehttpserver2 does not care if symbolic links point outside the web root directory.

Custom port

simplehttpserver2 [directory] -p 8080

Reverse proxy

simplehttpserver2 -r /api=http://localhost:3001

Support multi proxies setting, seperate by comma.

simplehttpserver2 -r /api/v1=http://localhost:3001,/api/v2=http://localhost:3002

Custom MIME types

Additional MIME types can be defined by command line arguments.

 simplehttpserver2 --mime.text/mytype=my,my2 --mime.font/woff2=woff2 .