Packer is a simple web server used to serve static contents.
Open packer folder, go to config.json
{
"server_name":"My movie server", // specify the name of your server
"location":"C:/Users/username/Downloads", // specifies the path location of the static content you want to serve, eg "/template/web" or "C:/Users/username/web"
"listen":80 // specifies the port you want to serve on, by defaut is port 80
}
To run with configurations specified in config.json, use
packer
To serve a contents from a folder, use
packer serve <path of the folder you want to serve>
example, to serve contents on the current folder, run
packer serve ./
to serve downloads folder, run
packer serve "C:/Downloads"
To serve on a specified port, use
packer --port=<number> serve "C:/Downloads" replace <number> with a any number e.g: 3000, 80, 443 e.t.c
example
packer --port=3000 serve ./
| Operating systems | Prebuilt Binaries | | ——————– | —————————- | | Windows 64Bit | packer-v0.2.2-win64.zip |
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