Super Simple Python HTTP Service

Super if you need a simple Web Server urgently, but you do not want to go to download and install those complex HTTP service program, such as: Apache, ISS, etc.. Then Python may help you. A simple built-in HTTP server can be accomplished using Python. So, you can present all your directories and files as HTTP. The only thing you need to do is to install a Python.

In fact, this is a very useful way to share files. Implementing a miniature HTTP service program is a simple matter and requires only one command line in Python. Here is the command line: (assuming we need to share our directory /home/haoel and the IP address is 192.168.1.1)

$ cd /home/haoel
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer

That will do, and our HTTP service is listening on port 8000. You'll get the following message:

Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...

You can open your browser (IE or Firefox) and enter the URL below:

http://192.168.1.1:8000

If you have a file in your directory with the filename called , then that file will be a default page, and if there is no such file, then the directory listing will be shown.

If you want to change the port number, you can use the following command:

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

If you only want this HTTP server to serve your local environment, then, you need to customize your Python's program a bit, here is an example:

import sys
import BaseHTTPServer
from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
HandlerClass = SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
ServerClass = 
Protocol   = "HTTP/1.0"
if [1:]:
  port = int([1])
else:
  port = 8000
server_address = ('127.0.0.1', port)
HandlerClass.protocol_version = Protocol
httpd = ServerClass(server_address, HandlerClass)
sa = ()
print "Serving HTTP on", sa[0], "port", sa[1], "..."
httpd.serve_forever()

Note: All of these things can be found in the Windows orCygwin Work under.

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