Python : Simple Web server with Python

Here’s an explanation of how to run simple web server with python script.

# python --version Python 2.7.3

use os , BaseHTTPServer and SimpleHTTPServer modules

# cat -n Simple_HTTPD.py     1 #!/usr/bin/env python     2     3 import os     4 import BaseHTTPServer     5 import SimpleHTTPServer     6     7 os.chdir('/home/hattori/www_dir')     8 server = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('localhost',80),SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)     9 server.serve_forever()

>>> import BaseHTTPServer >>> type(BaseHTTPServer) <type 'module'> >>> dir(BaseHTTPServer) ['BaseHTTPRequestHandler', 'DEFAULT_ERROR_CONTENT_TYPE', 'DEFAULT_ERROR_MESSAGE', 'HTTPServer', 'SocketServer', '__all__', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__package__', '__version__', '_quote_html', 'catch_warnings', 'filterwarnings', 'mimetools', 'socket', 'sys', 'test', 'time'] >>> import SimpleHTTPServer >>> type(SimpleHTTPServer) <type 'module'> >>> dir(SimpleHTTPServer) ['BaseHTTPServer', 'SimpleHTTPRequestHandler', 'StringIO', '__all__', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__package__', '__version__', 'cgi', 'mimetypes', 'os', 'posixpath', 'shutil', 'sys', 'test', 'urllib'] >>>

make a directory for simple web server

# ls /home/hattori/www_dir/ index.html

run python script

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access

# wget -d http://127.0.0.1/index.html -O - Setting --output-document (outputdocument) to - DEBUG output created by Wget 1.13.4 on linux-gnu. URI encoding = `UTF-8' --2012-12-08 21:32:05--  http://127.0.0.1/index.html Connecting to 127.0.0.1:80... connected. Created socket 3. Releasing 0x0000000001a6de80 (new refcount 0). Deleting unused 0x0000000001a6de80. ---request begin--- GET /index.html HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Wget/1.13.4 (linux-gnu) Accept: */* Host: 127.0.0.1 Connection: Keep-Alive ---request end--- HTTP request sent, awaiting response... ---response begin--- HTTP/1.0 200 OK Server: SimpleHTTP/0.6 Python/2.7.3 Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 12:32:05 GMT Content-type: text/html Content-Length: 6 Last-Modified: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 12:15:57 GMT ---response end--- 200 OK Registered socket 3 for persistent reuse. Length: 6 [text/html] Saving to: `STDOUT' 0% [                                       ] 0           --.-K/s              hello 100%[======================================>] 6           --.-K/s   in 0s       2012-12-08 21:32:05 (437 KB/s) - written to stdout [6/6]

access log.

# ./Simple_HTTPD.py 127.0.0.1 - - [08/Dec/2012 21:32:05] "GET /index.html HTTP/1.1" 200 -