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An open source command line http server for serving static files. This command line utility allows you to initialize a static file server. It can be used to quickly server static files in case you don't have heavy requirements of using standard web servers like Apache, tomcat etc.


Installation
============
Install Startserve with Node Package Manager:
```
npm install -g startserve
```

How to use
==========
```
Usage: startserve [Options]

Options:

  	-h, --help            output usage information
  	-V, --version         output the version number
	-p, --port <port>     specify web server port for accepting connection. Default is 9000
	-g, --gateway <path>  specify your static directory path. Default is [.]
	-a, --about           about startserve 0.0.5
```

To launch startserve with default options:
```
startserve
```
Startserve will launch on port ```9000``` with current directory as gateway path.

You can specify your server port with ```-p <port>``` option. For E.g.:
```
startserve -p 5000
```


Author & Contributors
=====================
Developed &amp; maintained by author: <b>Ashwin Hegde</b><br>
Follow me at: <a href="https://github.com/hegdeashwin" target="_blank">github</a> | <a href="http://in.linkedin.com/in/hegdeashwin" target="_blank">Linkedin</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hegdeashwin3" target="_blank">Twitter</a>

We really appreciate all kind of contributions. Special thanks to <a href="//github.com/hegdeashwin/Startserve/graphs/contributors" target="_blank">contributors</a> for using and supporting Startserve.

To request a feature or you find any typo errors, enhancements or questions; please feel free to post it on following link, or vote for the ones that are already registered.
<br>Tracking: <a href="https://github.com/hegdeashwin/Startserve/issues" target="_blank">https://github.com/hegdeashwin/Startserve/issues</a>

License
=======
The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Ashwin Hegde

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
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