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Asked: 2026-06-04T04:46:11+00:00

How do I only display simplehttpwebsite_content.html when I visit localhost:8080 ? So that I

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How do I only display simplehttpwebsite_content.html when I visit localhost:8080? So that I can’t see my filetree, only the webpage. All these files are in the same directory btw.

simplehttpwebsite.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import SimpleHTTPServer
import SocketServer

Handler = SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
server = SocketServer.TCPServer(('0.0.0.0', 8080), Handler)

server.serve_forever()

simplehttpwebsite_content.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html>
  <head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="simplehttpwebsite_style.css">
  </head>

  <body>
    This is my first web page
  </body>
</html>

simplehttpwebsite_style.css

body{background-color:blue;}
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  1. Editorial Team

    You can extend SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler and override the do_GET method to replace self.path with simplehttpwebpage_content.html if / is requested.

    #!/usr/bin/env python
import SimpleHTTPServer
import SocketServer

class MyRequestHandler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_GET(self):
        if self.path == '/':
            self.path = '/simplehttpwebpage_content.html'
        return SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.do_GET(self)

Handler = MyRequestHandler
server = SocketServer.TCPServer(('0.0.0.0', 8080), Handler)

server.serve_forever()

    Since SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler extends BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler, you can read their documentations to figure what methods and instance variables are available and how you can manipulate them.

    You can find the path variable mentioned in the documentation of BaseHTTPServer.BaseHTTPRequestHandler. You can find the do_GET() method mentioned in the documentation of SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.

    Here is some output from my shell to show what happens when I run this program and then I try to access http://localhost:8080/

    susam@swift:~/so$ ls
simplehttpwebpage_content.html  simplehttpwebpage.py  simplehttpwebsite_style.css
susam@swift:~/so$ python simplehttpwebpage.py
swift - - [19/Apr/2012 09:10:23] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -
swift - - [19/Apr/2012 09:10:26] "GET /simplehttpwebsite_style.css HTTP/1.1" 200 -
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