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Author: Andrew Janco

Digital Scholarship Programmer

Andy works with project partners as the server-side programmer and technical lead on data-intensive digital humanities and digital scholarship projects. He creates lightweight web applications, digital humanities tools, and digital projects in collaboration with Penn faculty and students.

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This is a tutorial to create a local webserver to serve files. We will re-purpose a Wi-Fi router to serve data over Wi-Fi to the browser on local devices such as phones and tablets. This is a great way to share digital archives and data with people in locations with limited internet access.

A yellow Wi-Fi router box that has been re-purposed as a local webserver.

Creating a Minimal Web Server