simpleHTTPServer, a simple web server

If you wish to have a simple web server that shares files inside your local network there is a good news. You can use simpleHTTPServer which is a Python (2.5+) builtin HTTP Server.

Go to the folder that you want to share and start the server.

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000

It will start the server at 8000 and it will serve the files that the current folder contains.