Today i'll explian the process of making your folder as a standalone file server.
Objective
Make my folder contents browse over httpProcedure
- Install Node
- Download from official website https://nodejs.org/en/download/
- Install http-server module in node globally
- npm install -g http-server
- Open terminal/command-prompt
- Navigate to your folder
- Run the following command to start the server
- http-server .
- or simply run
- hs .
- Run from anywhere with full path of the folder
- hs C:\FileFolder
- Starting up http-server, serving .
- Available on:
- http://10.10.6.2:8080
- http://127.0.0.1:8080
- http://youripaddress:8080
- Hit CTRL-C to stop the server
- You should be able to browse your file folder contents with any of the above URLs
Hope you are able to access your file contents over the browser
Tip: Using this approach, you can share your content over intranet/internet with full control over data as read only.
After stopped the server, access to the folder is stopped.
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