“Ad-hoc webserver” for static files on UNIX/MacOSX?

Question

Is there such a thing as a tiny little webserver that I can invoke from the command line that just fetches files from the local filesystem and serves them via HTTP on specific p

Answer 1

If you have python installed:

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...