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[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

nginx

why not just python -m http.server 1234 ?

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago

I feel like NGINX is simplest to configure. And it's in the repos already, so I don't see the advantage here.

Easy to do redirects, directory listings, serving a static website, setting mime types of specific files, basic user authentication, using HTTPS, using it as reverse proxy, limiting request types, limiting bandwidth, and making the directory listings far nicer with fancyindex module. That's all I need and it's pretty simple to do with NGINX. I don't know what the Python HTTP server does, nor how to use.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

if you said Caddy, I'd believe you more -- but nginx requires a lot of configuration.

python http server simply does a directory listing in the folder it is invoked in, and if there is an index.html file present it will serve it by default. Easy for hosting files/images from your phone

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