Servitol

A static file server for testing web frontends where you want to fool around with the URL but need predictable content served.

Install

npm install servitol

Run

servitol path/to/content/ 8080

How Servitol serves it all

mkdir -p path/to/content
cd !$
echo "ultimate fallback" > index.html
echo "exactly what you want" > exact.html
mkdir "subdir"
echo "a subdirectory index" > subdir/index.html
echo "subdirectory exact content" > subdir/exact.html

If the requested path exists, Servitol gives you that file.

If that path doesn't exist, but the directory does, and it has an index.html, Servitol gives you that.

Otherwise, Servitol gives you /index.html