Python 3 equivalent is:

`python -m http.server 8000`

In case anyone was interested.

List of server one-liners: https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255

Oops, fixed thank you!

Thank you.

Why not simply use file:///home/username/websitename/index.html ?

i guess it wouldn't matter in this particular example, but some browsers apply different security restrictions to the file:// protocol than they do to http.

Hmm I guess I haven't done that in a really long time, but I remember years ago running into issues because local files wouldn't reload immediately when I made changes to them (cached?) and have avoided it since. Don't know if other people have ever run into this?