Serve

Serve is a simple command line utility to serve the files in the current directory via http.

Note: Serve will not show the list of files in the current directory. It will only serve files (i.e. localhost won't show anything, but localhost/index.html will)

Usage

> serve
Listening on port 8080

By default serve listens on port 8080, but you can override this by providing a port number explicitly:

> serve 3000
Listening on port 3000

Building it with Cargo

As always, Cargo does its job pretty well:

cargo build --release

Caveat: Serve depends on Iron, which in turn depends on OpenSSL. Therefore, the build will fail in case Cargo can't find OpenSSL in your system. If you are unsure about what you have to do, please follow the instructions given in the rust-openssl repo.