Question

If I do python -m SimpleHTTPServer it serves the files in the current directory.

My directory structure looks like this:

/protected/public
/protected/private
/test

I want to start the server in my /test directory and I want it to serve files in the /test directory. But I want all requests to the server starting with ‘/public’ to be pulled from the /protected/public directory.

e.g.a request to http://localhost:8000/public/index.html would serve the file at /protected/public/index.html

Is this possible with the built in server or will I have to write a custom one?

Answer 1

I do not believe SimpleHTTPServer has this feature, however if you use a symbolic link inside of /test that points to /protected/public, that should effectively do the same thing.