Question

I asked a previous question here but after reading the answers realised I hadn’t done a very good job of defining my requirements.

Here’s what I’m after:

• Cross platform
• Drag, drop and start
• Preferably a single file

So to sum up I want something that I can just drag into a folder, start up and then it will start servering over http the contents of that folder.

Hope someone knows of something.

Cheers,

Chris

Answer 1

Python implementation:

#!/usr/bin/env python  import SimpleHTTPServer, BaseHTTPServer  def launchServer(ports):     for port in ports:         try:             serv = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('', port), SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)         except:             continue         else:             print ('Launched on port ' + str(port))             serv.serve_forever()          raise Exception('No ports available')  launchServer([80] + range(8000, 9000)) 

For a Windows executable, run this:

python setup.py py2exe 

setup.py:

from distutils.core import setup import py2exe setup(console=['minipywebd.py']) 

On Linux, chmod a+x the python file.