Validate website locally

[cdeil]

Is it possible to validate a static website that I have on my local computer?

I naively tried pointing at an index.html file, but that doesn't work:

$ pylinkvalidate.py docs/_build/html/index.html 
ERROR Crawled 1 urls with 1 error(s) in 0.01 seconds

  Start URL(s): http://docs/_build/html/index.html

  error (<class 'urllib.error.URLError'>): <urlopen error [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known>: http://docs/_build/html/index.html

If no, would it be a common enough case to add an option for that, or to mention in the README how it can be done?

[bartdag]

One thing you can do is start the default Python server:

cd docs/_build/html

# with python3
python3 -m http.server 8080

# with python2
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

And you can now submit http://127.0.0.1/index.html as your root page.