A more traditional web server
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A more traditional web server in Python
About the project
MiniPyP (pronounced mini·pipe) is an event-driven web server written in pure Python. However, MiniPyP is not an application framework. It’s a full web server, with virtual hosts, reverse proxies, and everything else you need. MiniPyP is intended to replace Apache and nginx, so you can use Python without the performance hit of CGI.
MiniPyP has some more advanced features right out of the box, too. For example, when a user goes to /some/url on your server, and the directory’s static option is set to False (default), the server will look for the file /some/url. If it doesn’t exist, but the file /some does, that file will be served. Extensions do not need to be specified with the static option set to False. In addition, if a file does not exist but a file named catchall exists, it will be served instead of a 404. This makes creating a single-page application that much more elegant.
Setup
First, install MiniPyP via pip.
pip install minipyp
To start a server within a Python program, specify a config like so (you may alternatively give a file location as the config):
from minipyp import MiniPyP
config = {
'host': '0.0.0.0',
'port': 80,
'root': '/var/www/html',
'timeout': 15,
'error_pages': {
404: {
'html': '<p>The file <code>{uri}</code> could not be found.</p>'
}
}
}
MiniPyP(config=config).start()
You may also start a server via the command line. Unless specified, the config will be created and loaded from /etc/minipyp/minipyp.conf on Mac/Linux and %APPDATA%\MiniPyP\minipyp.conf on Windows.
minipyp start [-c CONFIG]
Creating a page
To create a page (e.g. ‘https://mysite.com/test’), create a file called test.py in mysite.com’s root with the following:
def render(server, request):
return '<p>You requested the page <code>' + request.uri + '</code>.</p>'
Learn more
See the full documentation at https://minipyp.readthedocs.io
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0.2.0
Daemon mode
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Global config file (minipyp.conf)
Directory-specific config files (.minipyp)
0.1.0b1
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