Access to the College Green area of campus will be restricted until further notice. Current students, faculty and staff with a valid Penn card may enter and exit Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center through the Rosengarten Undergraduate Study Center on the ground floor, and may enter and exit the Fisher Fine Arts Library through the 34th Street entrance to Meyerson Hall.

Network maintenance: On Wednesday, May 15, 7am to 9am, Franklin, Colenda, and other locally-hosted applications will be down for maintenance.

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