clue/h5ai repository overview

⁠h5ai

h5ai⁠ is a modern web server index. This docker⁠ image makes it trivially easy to spin up a webserver and start sharing your files through the web.

See also the demo directory⁠.

⁠Usage

This docker image is available as an automated build on Docker Hub⁠, so there's no setup required. Using this image for the first time will start a download automatically. Further runs will be immediate, as the image will be cached locally.

The recommended way to run this container looks like this:

$ docker run -it --rm -p 80:80 -v `pwd`:/var/www clue/h5ai

You can now point your webbrowser to this URL:

http://localhost/

This is a rather common setup following docker's conventions:

• -it will run an interactive session that can be terminated with CTRL+C
• --rm will run a temporary session that will make sure to remove the container on exit
• -v {AnyDirectory}:/var/www will mount the given directory as the base directory for the browsable directory index
• -p {OutsidePort}:80 will bind the webserver to the given outside port
• clue/h5ai the name of this docker image