Python 3 simple HTTP server with GET functional

I can't find any Python code for the equivalent of

python -m http.server port --bind addr --directory dir

So I need basically a working server class that process at least GET requests. Most of the things I found on Google were either an HTTP server with some special needs or something like that, where you need to code the response behaviour be yourself:

from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer

def run(server_class=HTTPServer, handler_class=BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    server_address = ('', 8000)
    httpd = server_class(server_address, handler_class)
    httpd.serve_forever()

run()

All that I need is a default working skeleton of a Python HTTP server, where you can provide address, port and directory, and it would normally process GET requests.

Solution

That's what I ended up with:

# python -m http.server 8000 --directory ./my_dir

from http.server import HTTPServer as BaseHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
import os


class HTTPHandler(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
    """This handler uses server.base_path instead of always using os.getcwd()"""

    def translate_path(self, path):
        path = SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.translate_path(self, path)
        relpath = os.path.relpath(path, os.getcwd())
        fullpath = os.path.join(self.server.base_path, relpath)
        return fullpath


class HTTPServer(BaseHTTPServer):
    """The main server, you pass in base_path which is the path you want to serve requests from"""

    def __init__(self, base_path, server_address, RequestHandlerClass=HTTPHandler):
        self.base_path = base_path
        BaseHTTPServer.__init__(self, server_address, RequestHandlerClass)


web_dir = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'my_dir')
httpd = HTTPServer(web_dir, ("", 8000))
httpd.serve_forever()

A simple HTTP server that handles GET requests with, working with a certain directory.