Does IntelliJ have an internal web server to serve static content of a web application?

Question

Right now, the directory of my module is defined as an IIS virtual directory and IIS serves the files.

I was wondering whether IntelliJ has an internal web server, whic

Answer 1

A built-in HTTP preview server will be part of Intellij IDEA 13 and is already available in the EAP: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WEB-7148

"All existing actions — preview in browser (pop-up over html file or menu action or shortcut), open in browser and create/debug html file action now open file on built-in web server http://localhost:63342//"

In other words, right-click on an HTML page and select "Debug" or "Open in browser", and IDEA 13+ will serve up that page via port 63342.