How to create a simple HTTP webserver in python?

For Linux Open up a terminal and type:

$ cd /home/somedir
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Now your http server will start in port 8000. You will get the message:

Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...

Now open a browser and type the following address:

http://your_ip_address:8000

You can also access it via:

http://127.0.0.1:8000

or

http://localhost:8000

Also note:

If the directory has a file named index.html, that file will be served as the initial file. If there is no index.html, then the files in the directory will be listed.

If you wish to change the port that's used start the program via:

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

change the port number to anything you want.

On python3 the command is python3 -m http.server A Google search would easily lead you to this post

To create a simple HTTP webserver in python, use the in-built SimpleHTTPServer module as shown below:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080

where 8080 is the port number.

For really simple options, as per the one-liners given. For something that can expand easily in the asyncio framework, this is not a bad start to serve files from the current folder (hence the os.path).

import asyncio
from aiohttp import web
from os.path import abspath, dirname, join

async def main():
    app = web.Application()
    app.add_routes([
        web.static('/', abspath(join(dirname(__file__))))
    ])
    runner = web.AppRunner(app)
    await runner.setup()
    await web.TCPSite(runner, 'localhost', '8080').start()
    await asyncio.get_running_loop().create_future()

asyncio.run(main())