How to run a http server which serves a specific path?

Question

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?

Answer 1

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 

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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()