Starts a PHP or a Python server on a directory

servers.sh

# Stolen from a famous dotfile

# Start an HTTP server from a directory, optionally specifying the port
function server() {
  local port="${1:-8000}"
  sleep 1 && open "http://localhost:${port}/" &
  # Set the default Content-Type to `text/plain` instead of `application/octet-stream`
  # And serve everything as UTF-8 (although not technically correct, this doesn’t break anything for binary files)
  python -c $'import SimpleHTTPServer;\nmap = SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.extensions_map;\nmap[""] = "text/plain";\nfor key, value in map.items():\n\tmap[key] = value + ";charset=UTF-8";\nSimpleHTTPServer.test();' "$port"
}

# Start a PHP server from a directory, optionally specifying the port
# (Requires PHP 5.4.0+.)
function phpserver() {
  local port="${1:-4000}"
  local ip=$(ipconfig getifaddr en1)
  sleep 1 && open "http://${ip}:${port}/" &
  php -S "${ip}:${port}"
}