Fenix – Quick and Easy Local Web Server for Static File Testing

  • Reading the title, I was expecting to reply "python -m SimpleHTTPServer", but it actually looks like a nice app with some useful features.

    Would prefer ngrok over localtunnel, but hey, it's open source. Guess I'll do it myself!

  • Nice simple, easy to use and focussed on the core task, not an accidental byproduct of another product/tool/language. So gets my +1

    Of course there are many options to do the same thing - but this is a simple, clean and elegant start to a potentially really nice tool.

  • It does look like a nice app. Any comments on security? Anytime I see a windows web server I worry a bit about about that, only based on what I've seen in the past.

    The fact that it has a nice GUI makes adoption much more likely, going to play with this tonight :)

    Edit: https://yvrwzxiyog.localtunnel.me Cool!

  • I am really surprised that anyone would need this, but it definitely doesn't hurt. From what I can see, it serves static sites only. I... kind of... never needed that.

    It looks good though.

  • This would be perfect with one feature: reverse proxy (. It would be perfect to be able to put this in front of Django. I agree, Apache is annoying for one's desktop.

  • Beautiful page!

    One small nit: when loading up the page on a mac, I see OS X window chrome around the examples, but Windows style C:\ file paths

  • > Public sharing is tunneled through SSH (i.e. HTTPS).

    I don't think SSH means what they think it means

  • Looks interesting GUI but I much prefer to use Flask for simple needs. Flask has replaced Node.js completely, although I do miss the async, it's not worth wrestling with Javascript for in my experience.

        python server.py
        Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000

  • Hey, your website requires Javascript to display anything without any reason. It only uses JS for distracting effects.