Came across this great tip the other day. If your project is just html, css & javascript and you don’t want to bother faffing around with apache configs. On Mac OS X you can run the following 2 commands:
> cd /path/to/project/folder
> python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080
The beauty of this is that all macs come with python already installed. So it’s just up and running, no hassel, you can then hit http://localhost:8080 to see the site. Of course you can change the port number to something other than 8080.
More can be read about this at http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/tech-tip-really-simple-http-server-python
It literally took you longer to read all that than it will to get this going.
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Is it possible to then shut down the server?
ctrl+x then ctrl+c should do it in most cases, alternatively close the terminal window.