Re: [gentoo-user] minimal web server

[Walter Dnes]

On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 05:32:54AM +0100, Stroller wrote

> Consider this installation-free alternative:
> http://www.google.co.uk/searchq=one+line+python+web+server

  This.  Here's a Gentoo-specific script, which I saved as "~/bin/webd"
that handles Python 2 and 3...

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#!/bin/bash
cd ${1}
current_python=`eselect python show`
if [ "${current_python:0:7}" == "python2" ]; then
   python -m SimpleHTTPServer
elif [ "${current_python:0:7}" == "python3" ]; then
   python -m http.server 8000
fi
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  If it's called as simply "webd", it serves up my home directory.  If
it's called as "webd /usr/portage/distfiles" it allows access to my
distfiles directory.  Note that the user that launches webd has to have
at least read access to the directories to be served.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>