title: "Ad-hoc webserver" for static files on UNIX/MacOSX?
body: <p>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 port?</p>
  
  <p>I'd like to be able to do something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ cd ~/Sites/mysite
  $ serve . 10.0.1.1 8080
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This should fire up a webserver that listens on 10.0.1.1:8080 and serves files from the current directory (".") – no PHP, ASP or any of that needed.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestion greatly appreciated.</p>