What is it?

LittleHTTPServer is intended to extend SimpleHTTPServer a little bit more.

Requirements

Python 2.7 or 3.x and later

Features

Provide an arbitrary directory not only current directory
Provide some directories optimized for Sphinx document
Provide selectable SocketServer type, Threading or Forking

Setup

$ easy_install LittleHTTPServer

Quick Start

$ littlehttpserver -v -i path/to/top

Show the link to “top” directory via “http://localhost:8000/”.

Another example.

$ littlehttpserver -v -d path/to/pkg1/build/html
                      -d path/to/pkg2/build/sphinx/html

Show the link to “pkg1” and “pkg2” optimized for Sphinx documents.

https://bitbucket.org/t2y/littlehttpserver/raw/f2069ef40cdb/list_docs.png

Or, you would like to run as a python script with “-m” option.

$ python -m littlehttpserver -v -i path/to/top -d path/to/pkg1

$ littlehttpserver -h
usage: littlehttpserver [-h] [-d DOCUMENT_DIR] [-i INDEX_DIRECTORY]
                        [-p PORT_NUMBER] [-v] [--protocol PROTOCOL]
                        [--servertype {process,thread}] [--version]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d DOCUMENT_DIR, --dir DOCUMENT_DIR
                        set some document directories
  -i INDEX_DIRECTORY, --indexdir INDEX_DIRECTORY
                        set arbitrary top directory
  -p PORT_NUMBER, --port PORT_NUMBER
                        set server port number
  -v, --verbose         set verbose mode
  --protocol PROTOCOL   set protocol
  --servertype {process,thread}
                        set server type
  --version             show program version

ChangeLog

0.5.0 (2015-12-31)

update packaging dependency
drop Python 2.6 support

0.1.4 (2012-08-22)

add __main__.py to run as a python script with “-m” option

0.1.3 (2012-08-20)

change to use pytest-pep8 for PEP8 compliance
improve to be able to get package name with no version number

0.1.2 (2012-02-26)

add to be able to extend the argument parser with parent parser
refactoring (matching regular expression, testing)

0.1.1 (2012-02-10)

add “-i, –indexdir” option

0.1.0 (2012-02-06)

first release

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