Node http-server not working on Ubuntu linux

Question

I am trying to run a simple http server in my project directory. All I need is GET request support, so I can GET html/css/js/etc. For that I wanted to use http-server from npm.

I installed it with npm install http-server -g

Now I cd to my project folder where it has the index.html file, I open the terminal and run http-server

But when I open my browser at http://localhost:8080/index.html - it can't connect to the host.

Am I missing something?

Hebephrenia

From the npm: Starting http-server locally node bin/http-server. Now you can visit localhost:8080 to view your server. npmjs.org/package/http-server ( "Usage" ). – Mccune

Same result - can't connect. Does it store a log anywhere? – Hebephrenia

Doe you have output in the REPL? nodejs.org/api/repl.html – Mccune

Weirdly enough it works on Windows for me but not on linux (Mint 17) – Hebephrenia

Cool. The REPL is basically a console of V8, docs.nodejitsu.com/articles/REPL/how-to-use-nodejs-repl. – Mccune

Answer 1

Okay, the issue was - I had another package installed on Ubuntu, which is also called node

Node JS package is called nodejs on my system and I think that http-server is looking specifically for 'node'. In order to work around this:

I removed the node package with sudo apt-get remove node and created a symlink for nodejs:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/local/bin/node

Hebephrenia

Answer 2

First install npm. Second npm install http-server -g.Next append after the http-server url template url like http-server C:\xampp\htdocs\

Fewer

C drive in Ubuntu? – Hypoxanthine