You do not need to setup apache server just to hosting your file for sharing. If you have python 2.5 and above, you can do this at the targeted directory to share.
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 99149914 is the port number I choose to host my web, assume my IP is 192.168.1.1, in firefox you can ask your friend to access this url: http://192.168.1.1:9914.
It is easy isn’t it? You do NOT even need to run it as root, just run it as normal user but make sure your firewall allow the chosen port number.
