For when you really just want to serve some files over HTTP right now!
miniserve is a small, self-contained cross-platform CLI tool that allows you to just grab the binary and serve some file(s) via HTTP. Sometimes this is just a more practical and quick way than doing things properly.
miniserve linux-distro-collection/
miniserve linux-distro.iso
miniserve --auth joe:123 unreleased-linux-distros/
miniserve -i 192.168.0.1 --random-route /tmp
# Serving path /private/tmp at http://192.168.0.1/c789b6
miniserve -i 192.168.0.1 -i 10.13.37.10 -i ::1 /tmp/myshare
- Easy to use
- Just works: Correct MIME types handling out of the box
- Single binary drop-in with no extra dependencies required
- Authentication support with username and password (and hashed password)
- Mega fast and highly parallel (thanks to Rust and Actix)
- Folder download (compressed on the fly as .tar.gz)
- File uploading
- Pretty themes
On Linux: Download miniserve-linux
from the releases page and run
chmod +x miniserve-linux
./miniserve-linux
On OSX: Download miniserve-osx
from the releases page and run
chmod +x miniserve-osx
./miniserve-osx
Alternatively install with Homebrew.
brew install miniserve
miniserve
On Windows: Download miniserve-win.exe
from the releases page and run
miniserve-win.exe
With Cargo: You will need the nightly version of Rust to compile the project. Then you can run
cargo install miniserve
miniserve
With Docker: If you prefer using Docker for this, run
docker run -v /tmp:/tmp -p 8080:8080 --rm -it svenstaro/miniserve /tmp
For convenience reasons, miniserve will try to bind on all interfaces by default (if no -i
is provided).
It will also do that if explicitly provided with -i 0.0.0.0
or -i ::
.
In all of the aforementioned cases, it will bind on both IPv4 and IPv6.
If provided with an explicit non-default interface, it will ONLY bind to that interface.
You can provide -i
multiple times to bind to multiple interfaces at the same time.
- darkhttpd: Not easily available on Windows and it's not as easy as download and go.
- Python built-in webserver: Need to have Python installed, it's low performance, and also doesn't do correct MIME type handling in some cases.
- netcat: Not as convenient to use and sending directories is somewhat involved.
This is mostly a note for me on how to release this thing:
- Update version in
Cargo.toml
and runcargo update
. git commit
andgit tag -s
,git push
.cargo publish
- Releases will automatically be deployed by Travis.
- Update AUR package.