Node http-server not working on Ubuntu linux

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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?

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" ). — loveNoHate
– loveNoHate, Commented Sep 13, 2014 at 12:18
Weirdly enough it works on Windows for me but not on linux (Mint 17) — YemSalat
– YemSalat, Commented Sep 13, 2014 at 12:52
Cool. The REPL is basically a console of V8, docs.nodejitsu.com/articles/REPL/how-to-use-nodejs-repl. — loveNoHate
– loveNoHate, Commented Sep 13, 2014 at 16:21

YemSalat · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-26 11:18:04Z

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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

edited Sep 26, 2015 at 11:18

answered Sep 13, 2014 at 12:59

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vijay · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-06 11:26:04Z

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

answered Sep 6, 2017 at 11:26

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