Miniserve is a self-contained, zero-configuration HTTP server for displaying files in your terminal. It is a fast and lightweight alternative to more complex web servers. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Miniserve on OpenSUSE Linux.
The easiest way to install Miniserve on OpenSUSE is using the cargo package manager, which is a tool for managing Rust language packages.
Before you can install Miniserve, you need to install Rust and Cargo. To do this, run the following command in your terminal:
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
This command will download and run the Rustup installer script, which will download and install the latest stable version of Rust and Cargo.
Once the installation is complete, you can check the version of Rust and Cargo with the following command:
cargo --version
After installing Rust and Cargo, you can install Miniserve by running the following command:
cargo install miniserve
This command will download and install the latest version of Miniserve from the official Rust package registry.
To verify that Miniserve has been installed successfully, you can run the following command:
miniserve --version
This command will display the version of Miniserve that has been installed on your system.
Once Miniserve is installed, you can start using it to serve files from your terminal. To do this, navigate to the directory that contains the files you want to serve and run the following command:
miniserve
This will start Miniserve and serve the files in the current directory. You can then access the files from your web browser by navigating to http://localhost:8080.
If you want to customize the port or serve files from a different directory, you can use the following command syntax:
miniserve --port PORT_NUMBER --index INDEX_FILE_PATH DIRECTORY_PATH
For example, to serve files from the ~/Documents directory on port 8081, you can run the following command:
miniserve --port 8081 --index index.html ~/Documents
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install and use Miniserve on OpenSUSE. With Miniserve, you can quickly and easily serve files from your terminal without having to set up a complex web server.
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