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Setting up Python's SimpleHTTPServer

This tutorial helps you to set up a working directory for all of your sample code to live in. To access your pages you'll need to go http://localhost:8000/<your file name>

You should be careful to only user lowercase file names and use - or __ instead of spaces between your words

This process will place the working directory on your desktop, since it will be easy for you to find it there. The directory path will be /Users/<your user name>/Desktop/newsdayu

  1. Open terminal, which you can do easily by clicking on the spyglass in the top right-hand corner and typing in terminal
  2. Once terminal is open type mkdir -p ~/Desktop/newsdayu. This will create the directory on your desktop and you should save all of work in there.
  3. Type cd ~/Desktop/newsdayu. This will move your terminal session into the folder you just created on your desktop
  4. Type python -m SimpleHTTPServer. This will start the python HTTP server.