a simple static fileserver and directory index server in python (WSGI app)
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a simple static fileserver and directory index server in python (WSGI app)
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Often for testing you will want a static fileserver and directory index as part of your WSGI stack. In addition, you may have requirements to run such as part of a production WSGI stack. FileServer fits these needs.
Motivation
I needed a directory index server a la Apache to test a PyPI clone I was using. After surveying what was out there, there didn’t seem anything out there that was easily consumable for my purposes. So I wrote one only depending on webob .
Contents
from fileserver import * should give you access to all of the usable components of fileserver:
file_response: return a webob response object appropriate to a file name
FileApp: WSGI app that wraps file_response
Directory Server: serves a directory tree and generated indices
main: command line entry point
FileApp and file_response are heavily borrowed from http://docs.webob.org/en/latest/file-example.html though the example there is more complete. I will work on making this more thorough going forward. I also borrowed from Paste’s StaticURLParser and static.Cling.
In addition there is a command line script, serve, which may be used to serve a directory with the wsgiref server.
Other Projects
While I didn’t find them suitable for my use, there are other standalone static fileservers available for python:
Paste StaticURLParser
Jeff Hammel
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