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Comment by lordlarm | Hacker News Reader

Another useful one; Fire up a instant web-server from local folder on http://localhost:8080:

> python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Note that it has changed in python3

  > python3 -m http.server
  Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...

  > python3 -m http.server 8080
  Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8080 ...

Or if you use php (5.4 needed)

> php -S localhost:8080

Also in case you need to use another port (such as 5000):

> python -m SimpleHTTPServer 5000

smtp server one liner :

    $ sudo python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:25