'http-server' is not recognized as an internal or external command

Question

After installing angular-seed project, i did the following steps:

Cloned the repository :

git clone https://github.com/angular/angular-seed.git <

Answer 1

If the accepted solution did not work for you. Try the following. This solved the issue in my system.

Make sure the locations of both npm and http-server are added in environment variable 'PATH' (Both user variable and System variable).

If it is not present,

add C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm and C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\http-server to environment variable 'PATH'

Answer 2

@BenFortune found the answer it was

http-server needs to be installed globally with npm install -g http-server

Answer 3

npm install -g http-server

Use this command to install http-server module into your project. You can verify this in package.json

Answer 4

For me all that had to be done after the basic install

npm install http-server -g

Is to run as administrator from the project directory this command:

http-server dist/project-name

Answer 5

If you are using Window 10. Then after run

npm install -g http-server

The http-server.cmd will available in C:\Users\your-user\AppData\Roaming\npm

Then check if `http-server` work in `cmd` or not.

• If it works, you don't need to see the below part.
• If it not work. You need to check Environment Variable

• If you add variable to Path (inside admin). You need to run cmd as Administrator.
• If you add variable to Path (inside System variable). You don't need to run cmd as Administrator.

• Add C:\Users\your-user\AppData\Roaming\npm -> OK -> OK -> Re-open the cmd.
• The http-server will work

Answer 6

You can fix the issues by doing the following steps,

1. Install http-server globally by npm install -g http-server
2. Added 'PATH' in environment variable for system variable. Path will be like this C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm