Quick Webservers

Every now and then you run into a situation to transfer files quickly between systems. Hosting a file on a webserver is the easy way to download it into a system without having to deal with firewall restrictions as http is mostly allowed. Here are ways to quickly host files from systems using some of the popular scripting languages or frameworks,

Python

Python -m SimpleHTTPServer 80

Python3

Python3 -m http.server 80

PHP

Php -S 0.0.0.0:80

Ruby

Ruby -run -e httpd . -p 80

Busybox

Busybox httpd -f -p 80