When I've started to work on the Code And Talk site I did not know what I was building. I actually started out by collecting data about podcasts. I did not use a database but I wanted to have some kind of a display.
So instead of creating a dynamic site I opted for a static site that can be generated by a script and a few templates.
Such site can be served using Apache or Nginx, but on my development machine I don't have either of those. So I wrote a small web server serving the static files.
examples/python/static_server.py
#!/usr/bin/env python3
from http.server import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
import os
class StaticServer(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
def do_GET(self):
root = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))), 'html')
#print(self.path)
if self.path == '/':
filename = root + '/index.html'
else:
filename = root + self.path
self.send_response(200)
if filename[-4:] == '.css':
self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/css')
elif filename[-5:] == '.json':
self.send_header('Content-type', 'application/javascript')
elif filename[-3:] == '.js':
self.send_header('Content-type', 'application/javascript')
elif filename[-4:] == '.ico':
self.send_header('Content-type', 'image/x-icon')
else:
self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html')
self.end_headers()
with open(filename, 'rb') as fh:
html = fh.read()
#html = bytes(html, 'utf8')
self.wfile.write(html)
def run(server_class=HTTPServer, handler_class=StaticServer, port=8000):
server_address = ('', port)
httpd = server_class(server_address, handler_class)
print('Starting httpd on port {}'.format(port))
httpd.serve_forever()
run()
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