Creating Simple HTTP server to share the files

Some time we required to share our files with the colleagues in the same network. Recently I found an easy way to share files using the python server.

Open a terminal and go to the directory where need to share the files.

Using "cd" command.

Then we can start the server like below.

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

This will start a server with the port 8000 which is the default one. If we need to set a separate port we can use the command like below.

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 5008

We can access the http server using the browser. Like below.

http://IP:port