this is my Python3 project hiearchy:
projet
\
script.py
web
\
index.html
From script.py
, I would like to run a http server which serve the content of the web
folder.
Here is suggested this code to run a simple http server:
import http.server
import socketserver
PORT = 8000
Handler = http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
httpd = socketserver.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler)
print("serving at port", PORT)
httpd.serve_forever()
but this actually serve project
, not web
. How can I specify the path of the folder I want to serve?
In Python 3.7 SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
can take a directory
argument:
import http.server
import socketserver
PORT = 8000
DIRECTORY = "web"
class Handler(http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
super().__init__(*args, directory=DIRECTORY, **kwargs)
with socketserver.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler) as httpd:
print("serving at port", PORT)
httpd.serve_forever()
and from the command line:
python -m http.server --directory web
To get a little crazy... you could make handlers for arbitrary directories:
def handler_from(directory):
def _init(self, *args, **kwargs):
return http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.__init__(self, *args, directory=self.directory, **kwargs)
return type(f'HandlerFrom<{directory}>',
(http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler,),
{'__init__': _init, 'directory': directory})
with socketserver.TCPServer(("", PORT), handler_from("web")) as httpd:
print("serving at port", PORT)
httpd.serve_forever()