How To Start An HTTP Server In Python 2 & 3

Table of contents

• Starting a server in Python 2
• Starting a server in Python 3
• Renaming Python 3 to Python

Python provides a convenient way to start a simple HTTP server to serve up HTML files using the SimpleHTTPServer module in Python 2. In Python 3 this is done using the http. server module.

Starting a server in Python 2

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01: python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

Starting a server in Python 3

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01: python -m http.server 8000

If you have both versions of Python install Python 3 might be available as `python3`` in which case use the line below instead.

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01: python3 -m http.server 8000

Renaming Python 3 to Python

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$ alias python=python3

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