Simplest way to "Fire up a web server" to run examples

[phtrivier]

Hi

This might sound like an absolutely stupid question, but what would be the simplest / recommanded / quickest way to do the "Fire up a web server" part of the "Getting started" guide ? Do you recommand any "quick and dirty" server (and what would be the configuration tricks ?)

Thanks

[bsatrom]

If you're on a mac/linux, you can call "python -m SimpleHTTPServer" from the
terminal (in the polymer directory). For Windows, you could use Mongoose,
though I've not tried it myself.

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Pierre-Henri Trivier <
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Hi

This might sound like an absolutely stupid question, but what would be the
simplest / recommanded / quickest way to do the "Fire up a web server" part
of the "Getting started" guide ? Do you recommand any "quick and dirty"
server (and what would be the configuration tricks ?)

Thanks

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[jkomoros]

That was precisely what I was going to say. That one-line python way is
great.

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Brandon Satrom notifications@github.comwrote:

If you're on a mac, you can call "python -m SimpleHTTPServer" from the
terminal (in the polymer directory). For Windows, you could use Mongoose,
though I've not tried it myself.

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Pierre-Henri Trivier <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

Hi

This might sound like an absolutely stupid question, but what would be
the
simplest / recommanded / quickest way to do the "Fire up a web server"
part
of the "Getting started" guide ? Do you recommand any "quick and dirty"
server (and what would be the configuration tricks ?)

Thanks

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[sjmiles]

One of our friends made this: https://npmjs.org/package/polymer-bootstrap

But I haven't tried it personally.

[sjmiles]

Don't Macs generally ship with Apache installed?

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:04 AM, jkomoros notifications@github.com wrote:

That was precisely what I was going to say. That one-line python way is
great.

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Brandon Satrom notifications@github.comwrote:

If you're on a mac, you can call "python -m SimpleHTTPServer" from the
terminal (in the polymer directory). For Windows, you could use
Mongoose,
though I've not tried it myself.

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Pierre-Henri Trivier <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

Hi

This might sound like an absolutely stupid question, but what would be
the
simplest / recommanded / quickest way to do the "Fire up a web server"
part
of the "Getting started" guide ? Do you recommand any "quick and
dirty"
server (and what would be the configuration tricks ?)

Thanks

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[homleen]

@sjmiles No apache in Macs by default. But "python -m SimpleHTTPServer" really does well.

[wesleycho]

Macs come with Apache, but you have to configure it/turn it on I believe.

[homleen]

@wesleycho http://www.macinstruct.com/node/112 Mac does have built-in server.

[brandonpayton]

@homleen The option for personal web sharing was removed in Mountain Lion even though Apache still exists on the machine.

[neonstalwart]

if you have node/npm - https://github.com/nodeapps/http-server#installing-globally

# install http-server
npm install -g http-server
# to serve the current directory
http-server

[homleen]

@brandonpayton Thanks for the information.

[phtrivier]

Thanks, I ended up using a custom "express" server with static rules, but the one-liners are definitely better !