Enable on all interfaces and/or change port As soon as you select the folder, you can navigate to and you will see the content of the selected folder:īy default the server uses port 8887 and responds to HTTP requests only from the localhost. Launch Web Server appĬlick on Web Server application icon in chrome://apps and you will see the following window:Ĭlick on Choose Folder to select which folder the server should serve files from. Now, if you go to chrome://apps/ in your Chrome browser you will see the Web Server among the installed apps: Step 2. The application page look like this:Ĭlick Add to Chrome and the extension will be installed. Search for Web Server for Chrome and you will easily find this extension on Chrome Web Store. Download the “Web Server for Chrome” extension This extension is not a replacement for a full scale production Web Servers. This post shows how to run a simple HTTP server on any machine (Windows or Linux) which has Chrome Web Browser installed. HTTP server is often required when you want to serve some files to remote hosts, or update firmware of some device.
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