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

Question

After installing angular-seed project, i did the following steps:
Cloned the repository :
git clone https://github.com/angular/angular-seed.git
cd angular-seed
Then I ran npm install
at the end of the install i get:
angular-seed#0.0.0 prestart C:\Users\user\Documents\GitHub\comilion\angular-seed
npm install
angular-seed#0.0.0 postinstall C:\Users\user\Documents\GitHub\myproject\angular-seed
bower install
angular-seed#0.0.0 start C:\Users\user\Documents\GitHub\myproject\angular-seed
http-server -a localhost -p 2324
'http-server' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
npm ERR! angular-seed#0.0.0 start: http-server -a localhost -p 2324
npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the
angular-seed#0.0.0 start script. npm ERR! This is most likely a
problem with the angular-seed package, npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system: npm ERR!
http-server -a localhost -p 2324 npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls angular-seed npm ERR! There is likely
additional logging output above. npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601
npm ERR! command "C:\Program Files\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\Program
Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "start" npm ERR!
cwd C:\Users\user\Documents\GitHub\myproject\angular-seed npm ERR!
node -v v0.10.22 npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.14 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm
ERR! npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in: npm ERR!
C:\Users\user\Documents\GitHub\myproject\angular-seed\npm-debug.log
please let me know if you have any suggestions how to solve this issue.

Answer 1

#BenFortune found the answer it was
http-server needs to be installed globally with npm install -g http-server

Answer 2

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 3

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 4

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

Answer 5

You can fix the issues by doing the following steps,
Install http-server globally by npm install -g http-server
Added 'PATH' in environment variable for system variable. Path will be like this C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm

Answer 6

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 7

1-remove http-server by command
npm uninstall http-server -g
2- install again
npm install http-server -g