Can App Loader be hosted locally ?

I've not come across the concept of sub-modules before in git. I just cloned my fork.

Now tried (in the hope I did not need to setup an HTTP server).

git clone --recursive git://github.com/foo/bar.git
cd bar

But still got the same issue (no apps in the loader page).
I dont think its going to be possible to setup a HTTP server on a chromebook.
The linux beta (where git is installed) runs in a seperate container.