Simple HTTP server for folders

Question

Every once in a while when I'm debugging some web app, it would be useful for me to be able to serve a folder via a lightweight HTTP server. Something along the lines of

cd folder
httpserve -p 5000

in order to serve that folder over port 5000. Is there any tool to allow me to do this?

Thanks.

Answer 1

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 5000

Or for cgi serving:

python -m CGIHTTPServer 5000

and browse to : http://localhost:5000/myscript.py