Simple Linux webserver

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Oleksandr Porunov edited this page Apr 19, 2017 · 3 revisions

This instraction describes how to run a simple Linux webserver to serve well-known files (HTTP01 challenges) in several steps.

Create a webserver directory and a well-known directory
```
mkdir -p /var/www/.well-known/acme-challenge
```
Copy your well-known files into the /var/www/.well-known/acme-challenge directory.
Enter your server directory
```
cd /var/www
```

Run your server on port 80

$(command -v python2 || command -v python2.7 || command -v python2.6) -c \
"import BaseHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer; \
s = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('', 80), SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler); \
s.serve_forever()"

ℹ️ Press Ctrl + C to stop the server.