In this post, we will look at the built-in web server in Python.<\/p>\n
The SimpleHTTPServer module that comes with Python is a simple HTTP server that provides standard GET and HEAD request handlers.<\/p>\n
An advantage of the built-in HTTP server is that you don\u2019t have to install and configure anything. The only thing that you need, is to have Python installed.<\/p>\n
That makes it perfect to use when you need a quick web server running and you don\u2019t want to mess with setting up apache.<\/p>\n
You can use this to turn any directory in your system into your web server directory.<\/p>\n
To start a HTTP server on port 8000 (which is the default port), simple type:<\/p>\n
python -m SimpleHTTPServer [port]<\/pre>\nThis will now show the files and directories which are in the current working directory.<\/p>\n
You can also change the port to something else:<\/p>\n
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080<\/pre>\nHow to share files and directories<\/h3>\n
In your terminal, cd into whichever directory you wish to have accessible via browsers and HTTP.<\/p>\n
cd \/var\/www\/\r\n\r\n$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer<\/pre>\nAfter you hit enter, you should see the following message:<\/p>\n
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 \u2026<\/p>\n
Open your favorite browser and put in any of the following addresses:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/your_ip_address:8000\r\n\r\nhttp:\/\/127.0.0.1:8000<\/pre>\nIf you don\u2019t have an index.html file in the directory, then all files and directories will be listed.<\/p>\n
As long as the HTTP server is running, the terminal will update as data are loaded from the Python web server.<\/p>\n
You should see standard http logging information (GET and PUSH), 404 errors, IP addresses, dates, times, and all that you would expect from a standard http log as if you were tailing an apache access log file.<\/p>\n
Summary<\/h3>\n
In this post we showed how you with minimal effort can setup a web server to
\nserve content.<\/p>\nIt\u2019s a great way of serve the contents of the current directory from the command line<\/p>\n
While there are many web server software out there (apache, nginx), using Python built-in HTTP server require no installation and configuration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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