How to start python simpleHTTPServer on Windows 10

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I recently bought a Windows 10 machine and now I want to run a server locally for testing a webpage I am developing.

On Windows 7 it was always very simple to start a HTTP Server via python and the command prompt. Fx writing the below code would fire up a HTTP server and I could watch the website through localhost.

C:\pathToIndexfile\python -m SimpleHTTPServer

This does however not seems to work on Windows 10...

Does anyone know how to do this on Windows 10?

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3 Answers

If you already have python 3 installed, just run:

python -m http.server
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On Windows, neither python nor python3 worked for me; the program just hangs there, doing nothing.

However, I got it to work via ipython:

ipython -m http.server 8000

You need to install IPython beforehand, though:

pip install ipython
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