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Run localhost with Python
From the course: Learning Infrastructure for Developers
Run localhost with Python
- [Instructor] With Python, we can create a simple server with just one command. Depending on whether you have Python Two or Python Three installed, you can run one of these two commands to create and start up a server. This Python web server will serve the contents of the folder it is run in. So before we run the command, let's make a new directory. We'll call this directory contents and cd into it. Then, we'll create a text file using nano and add a simple hello statement. We'll call this file hello.txt. This opens the nano editor. You're welcome to use them or another text editor in the command line or make a text file in a different way. In this file, I'll write, Hi this is me from your computer. Then I'll do control O to write out the file and save the file and then control X to exit out of that editor. If we run ls, we should see the hello.txt file inside of our contents directory. Let's run the Python command.…
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