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Created February 27, 2012 20:36
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Node.JS static file web server. Put it in your path to fire up servers in any directory, takes an optional port argument.
var http = require("http"),
url = require("url"),
path = require("path"),
fs = require("fs"),
mime = require("mime")
port = process.argv[2] || 8888;
http.createServer(function(request, response) {
var uri = url.parse(request.url).pathname
, filename = path.join(process.cwd(), uri);
path.exists(filename, function(exists) {
if(!exists) {
response.writeHead(404, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
response.write("404 Not Found\n");
response.end();
return;
}
if (fs.statSync(filename).isDirectory()) filename += '/index.html';
fs.readFile(filename, "binary", function(err, file) {
if(err) {
response.writeHead(500, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
response.write(err + "\n");
response.end();
return;
}
response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": mime.lookup(filename)});
response.write(file, "binary");
response.end();
});
});
}).listen(parseInt(port, 10));
console.log("Static file server running at\n => http://localhost:" + port + "/\nCTRL + C to shutdown");
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I agree, this wouldn't be a good permanent solution. We needed something light weight and easy to setup quickly. It essentially servered up a glorified down for maintenance page while we were working on things. It did what we needed and was much easier than setting up apache or nginx.

@grasGendarme
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Wow using this in production is looking for trouble... You could just request /../../..../../etc/passwd as there's no security validation

@JC1738
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JC1738 commented Aug 13, 2013

npm install mime Replaced path.exists with fs.exists

@jared-christensen
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Just what I was looking for, thank you.

@donavon
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donavon commented Nov 24, 2014

You are missing a comma at the end of line 5.

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pps83 commented May 16, 2018

this doesn't work with utf8 names. path has to be url decoded first.

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