Serve and Reach a Page
Put up a small web page and prove it's reachable. Create the page, start a web server on port 8080, check it's listening, and fetch it with curl. Password: student.
How it works: the terminal below is a real Linux machine running in your browser. Click it and
type. Tasks tick themselves off as you complete them; questions are answered in the box under each task.
Press Reset any time for a fresh machine. Your password on this machine (for
sudo) is student.
Hints
busybox httpd needs no sudo for a high port like 8080.
curl -s URL > file saves the response to a file.
Solution explanation
busybox httpd -p 8080 -h ~/site starts a web server on port 8080 serving your directory; it returns to the prompt because it runs in the background. ss -tln shows it listening on :8080, and curl connects to 127.0.0.1:8080 as a client and saves the page it gets back.
Show solution
echo "welcome aboard" > ~/site/index.html
busybox httpd -p 8080 -h ~/site
ss -tln | grep 8080
curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8080/ > ~/page.html
cat ~/page.html