Simple HTTPServer in Local Machine

I was trying to setup a local webserver. I need it because, I was learning D3 a javascript library after getting to know about it from Geeks Night session.

First I was downloading MAMP, but due to awesome internet connectivity I almost lost my patience since it was taking more than 40 minutes to download. On searching in internet for other options I found that there is a charm in Mac OS X due to preinstalled Python.

If we are trying with HTML,CSS and javascript this option will be very usefull. Try the below in Terminal Window python -m SimpleHTTPServer <port-number> &

This will start a local HTTP server in your Mac. Access it via browser in below url http://localhost:<port-number>/

In order to shutdown the server just close the Terminal window.

I learned it from this link

I am very late in learning this :(