Learnignto use Phaser

[RobertoMolina]

Hi, i am learnig to use phaser and following you tutorial, but tomcat does not run the hellophaser page.

It returns me a http://404  error.

 

What can i do??

[aarroyoc]

Hi @RobertoMolina!

In order to use Phaser you don't need to use a Java server like Tomcat. Just an static HTTP server. Most popular ones are Apache and Nginx. You can even use Python's builtin http server.

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Phaser games can be hosted even on free hosting sites if you want.

 

I've noticed you speak Spanish. Take a look at: Gamedev Hispano , they can help you in Spanish with Phaser.

[PixelProgrammer]

@aarroyoc said it best. You need a simple HTTP server. I'd suggest Mongoose which is a lightweight server. If you're using Webstorm as an IDE you can use the inbuilt server.

[scheffgames]

I'm using Wamp because it's very easy to install and use - you're talking about a local server, right?

[Tom Atom]

If you have node.js installed, you can use "http-server" (https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server)

 - to install it, write: npm install http-server -g
 - to run it, write: http-server

 Nothing more is needed.

 

[mattstyles]

There's nothing wrong with Tomcat, @RobertoMolina it just sounds like you have files in the wrong location, you could do that with any of the other servers mentioned here.

Having backed the big Java beast, I would say to follow TomAtom's advice and use Node (unless you're from a different background and comfortable with other tools, which you're not given the problem), we're JSers so using a JS back-end makes sense as thats now possible. Not that it really matters for firing up a server though, there are loads of projects that will spin up a server (I even have my own called hench haha ) in your current directory, they all require a bit of knowledge of the command line though, only a little bit, if you're uncomfortable on the command line then spinning up a server sounds like a nice easy way to get started (you need to know it!).