Disclaimer: Once you start the server, an instance of Chrome will open up. Due to limitations of the Selenium package, you will have to manually type in the address of the server. But after that you shouldn't encounter any issues!
An easy-to-use Local HTTP Server written in Python using the Socket and Selenium packages!
- Easy to use and fast to set up
- It detects file changes and conveniently refreshes your Chrome tab for you (Support for other browsers coming soon!)
- Supports all basic HTTP request methods (GET and POST)
- After following the instructions in SETUP.md, you will be able to start up a server in any directory just by typing
server.pyin your terminal!
- Python 3.x, you can install by visiting http://www.python.org
- Selenium python package
- Watchdog python package (it helps with watching for file changes in the directory of choice)
- Socket python package
You can install all of them using python -m install requirements.txt
Check out SETUP.md to find out how to make this server available system-wide!
Open a command prompt in the directory in which you have the files and type server.py. You're done! You can now start editing your files for your website inside of the web directory and the server will display them at http://127.0.0.1:8000!