Simple Python Web Server

In this video we'll be creating a really simple web server in Python using the Python http library.
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[@tsaligm6320]

This is not only a great beginner project, but also a very lightweight server for any needs

[@necodaley5386]

Thanks for making this video. You explained something that didn't really understand but now I understand it. Thanks again for making this video hope to more videos on servers

[@mikethegamedev]

Such high quality content! 👍👍👍

[@matiasarenas7706]

Thanks 4 the code! It's a late thanks, but with good vibes (y)

[@user-iw5de9ou6u]

i like this tutorial, direct to the point

[@abdurrazzak1612]

Such high quality content!

[@eloyperezrodriguez2218]

Thanks for the tutorial! It has helped me a lot :D

[@prestonwallitsch8636]

thank you so freaking much. I am a beginner at python and I was having trouble finding out how to do this.

[@manosped4202]

sorry if the questing is dumb but how can we publish it on the net or show this to our friends?

[@atomruby4096]

Straight to the point, nice !

[@sanchogodinho8769]

Wow! It REALLY works!!!

[@dixyfrex4537]

which editor do you use?

[@georgeseletski8241]

Thanks THE BEST VIDEO I"VE SEEN!!!

[@StephenPoole-of4qc]

Why do you put the [1:] when opening and reading the file?

[@julianosvonskingrad7009]

Question: Is the python script executed? Constantly running?

[@deni86]

Thanks a lot bro, helped out a lot!

[@kevinl7139]

More simple python stuff please!

[@maramismail432]

what the program use ?

[@nagasesanagasesa7026]

can this replace flask?

[@hamzadaoud2653]

so this is mean i won't need to install Apache2 or kickweb server ... ?

[@Maexwellus]

can you tell me how to add ccs to that ?

[@krin3x93]

so if i port forward the ip and the port that is assigned, i should be able to access it through the internet?

[@why1t]

Yes

[@Solomonwo]

How to do that?

[@trieule2012]

what is DS_Store, ser?

[@willum7981]

Great video, keep it up!

[@endoman3301]

What version of python it is?

[@alisaleh1900]

Thanks a lot

[@homieluca]

now how can i unpoad a file to this webserber ?

[@Ftoy-OG]

Never sending content header but closing it, seems legit

[@scamcaller]

looks like i can very easily execute any file in the root directory only if I know their names

[@AMGKarim404]

nice bro that was help thnx alot

[@hanoufhaz1991]

what platform did you use here, I am using only notepad++ , can I still open webserver by it ?

[@കൊച്ചുണ്ണി]

I know it's been two years. But if you are asking about from where he opened the webserver, its from his browser. Not the IDE or text editor. When he executes the python program, he is serving the webserver on his localhost at port 8080 and he is accessing the localhost from the browser.

[@imagineexistance4538]

My first web server!

[@GerardoWacker]

Thank you for the tutorial! It's very simple to make, but my question is, Is there a way to change the server name? (for example, Apache, nginx, and cloudflare uses a server called cloudflare-nginx)

[@user-wz3pi1vh7o]

what

[@DominicNweze]

I dotn really care about the server name, but issue is that other devices can't even assess the server or site.

[@TheSlyProductions]

How would you serve a CSS file along with the HTML?

[@user-rv5qf1ud6j]

You can refer to the file from index.html.

[@dasdunetechnologies1695]

nice ! maybe next step is to handle a POST request ?

[@MichaelKopanaslike]

what IDE do you have?

[@davidrodenkirchen4666]

Looks like PyCharm

[@increadibleangel7980]

I have website....how can I make it run user input python code...Like cideacademy

[@prestonwallitsch8636]

Can you use this to create an html webpage?

[@Henry_Nunez]

yes

[@evolvedanimeisland]

great video, its nice that you showed how to code your own server although all that was not necessary. go to command line type python -m http.server 8000 and you are done.....good job though

[@drcmyway5064]

Which software is used to run the code

[@khalifaharuna9852]

atom

[@samuelhulme8347]

Or python it self

[@MeloIZCor3]

How do I add this web server page to a website like Wix or Wordpress?

[@zerokun2655]

if i go to localhost:8080 it says file not found but i did add the if to "redirect" to index.html :(

[@hardikp5192]

same here bro

[@club6525]

how do you setup the html file?

[@dakathulatris728]

Please, can you share the theme and syntax you are using on atom?

[@janikneil1766]

It's VS Code

[@gabriellindgren3447]

@@janikneil1766 nah, that’s definitley Atom

[@umarbello6022]

Awesome

[@urdad1656]

how do i launch a server

[@mandunna]

anyone getting "socket.gaierror: [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known" when running?

[@justgivemethetruth]

Wow, that is pure amazing. How hard would it be to add CGI capabilities to this? I want to create a local web server to my machine that will serve portions of the filesystem, like home dir, or media directories and has controls to do manipulations on files if the user has the right permissions. Can this serve things like video, audio, images, etc? I am so glad I found this - all the other similiar things always want people to use these frameworks like FLASK or whatnot and the point for me is to learn and use Python.

[@chonkydog6262]

yes

[@clusion1405]

Is it possible to run PHP on that webserver

[@neevot]

no

[@lynx-me2ew]

can i reach this server from other networks ?????? if not please write me if you make a video about it

[@neevot]

in theory, yes

[@thomastsojan4367]

Does this support realtime communication

[@amineabdz]

it depends , this is a TCP server so it is a realtime communication Server but you might want to create a UDP server in which case you should consult other tutorials

[@JoJo1236]

What about a multi threaded web server?

[@aleksejskirikovs8903]

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import urllib import settings as sett from datetime import datetime from SocketServer import ThreadingMixIn from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer class HOMEServer(ThreadingMixIn, HTTPServer): daemon_threds = True class IPTVserver(BaseHTTPRequestHandler): def send_response(self, code, message = None): self.log_request(code) self.wfile.write('%s %d %s ' % (self.protocol_version,code, message)) self.wfile.flush() def do_HEAD(self, contype, lenght = None): self.send_response(200,'OK') self.send_header('Server', sett.nserver) self.send_header('Content-Type', contype) self.send_header('Date', self.date_time_string()) if lenght: self.send_header('Content-lenght', lenght) self.end_headers() def do_GET(self): path = self.path.lstrip('/') expansion = self.get_expansion(path) self.send_content(path, expansion)

[@jonathansimmons2863]

How to run this?

[@animemaniaticos2483]

you can open it on cmd as nameofyourfile.py

[@trollnot5526]

I saw in another comment to use atom

[@maramismail432]

@@animemaniaticos2483 I tried it not working, can I show a picture for clarification? Please

[@skywalker778]

got it, but images wont show up..

[@Victor_Marius]

class Serv(BaseHTTPRequestHandler): def do_GET(self): print('...received url: ', self.path, ' ') filePath = '/index.html' if self.path == '/' else self.path filePath = filePath.replace('%20', ' ') # this line allows files and directories which contains spaces in their names try: with open(filePath[1:], 'rb') as file: # this line open the file to be read as binary (done by 'rb'), images has to be read as binary fileContent = file.read() self.send_response(200) except: fileContent = bytes('File not found!', 'utf-8') self.send_response(404) self.end_headers() self.wfile.write(fileContent)

[@APC9906]

Assuming this is Python 3

[@MohamedAhmed-op3lu]

it doesn't work with me, always gives me 404 file not found can you help please?

[@Ss-wz1op]

U should create ur file bro using . html extensiom

[@Ftoy-OG]

the program dosent find the file you trying to send /[example.html] wouldnt be found if it wasnt next to the executable mainexample.py

[@caio-jl6qw]

i like your accent!

[@hizokadarkwolf]

super

[@jansabana]

I like your accent !

[@irislu815]

i fixed it as well ! yeah

[@olegmaz3969]

I get error: Error code: 501 Message: Unsupported method ('GET'). Error code explanation: HTTPStatus.NOT_IMPLEMENTED - Server does not support this operation.

[@ladygaga7310]

so am i

[@frotribe4329]

You should write do_Get as do_GET

[@frotribe4329]

That's what solved my problem

[@Cocinaconparrilla]

i just PHP include " "; it the file and it works...

[@DominicVictoria]

How to stop server

[@williamknight2433]

but how come i can't access my site on other devices ?

[@clodman84]

You are hosting is localhost, that's why

[@knifebosstutorials]

When would this be better than using like apache?

[@wneild5]

Knife Boss maybe for development purposes so that rather than installing and setting up a whole web server like apache, you could use a small lightweight python server.

[@lwh8652]

How easily could this type of simple server be hacked?

[@danielgorgis2616]

extremely easily

[@danielgorgis2616]

if you don't work you dependencies correctly, it's almost welcoming you to hack it

[@Fallenskate069]

@@danielgorgis2616 its hosted locally. It would only be easy if the hacker had direct access to your computer.

[@evanwilliams1199]

@@danielgorgis2616 If I wanted to host a small website for an hour and only have a couple friends join it, how could I make this webserver more secure?

[@Victor_Marius]

And, now, how do you stop it?

[@drewbutler1326]

Yes

[@Victor_Marius]

@@drewbutler1326 Ctrl+C will do it, but better is to have a special route which will stop serving but be able to do something extra in the end

[@syror5000]

Clapp clapp Thanks!

[@theinthanhlan3582]

How to host globally

[@gyanuchaulagain2062]

Make video about how to make complex ecommerce site like Amazon and ebay

[@jacksonabernathy1683]

Gyanu Chaulagain *videos

[@user-rv5qf1ud6j]

Just use website builders like weebly, wordpress etc. Even if you can code there is no point in struggling nowadays. Above mentioned websites already have ecommerce worked out for you.

[@undefinedchannel9916]

@@user-rv5qf1ud6j eww no, stick to html and css and DEFINITELY php

[@justviren7855]

its not working

[@Outtapocket206]

Can someone change html of Facebooks web server?

[@red1monster_]

Yikes

[@user-rv5qf1ud6j]

This is pure comedy.

[@undefinedchannel9916]

​@@user-rv5qf1ud6j tru. Technically they could, if they broke into the server room and replaced the .html file

[@tusharniras]

65 dislikes by Flask users

[@teamplus9362]

can I make it public ?

[@undefinedchannel9916]

port forwarding, go to your router page and forward port 80 on the device you host the website on. then get your ip and tell someone to connect to it ;D

[@teamplus9362]

@@undefinedchannel9916 thanks! (:

[@undefinedchannel9916]

@@teamplus9362 np Btw on some routers, the page is 10.0.0.1

[@teamplus9362]

@@undefinedchannel9916 and the password I put is the one that connects to my router?

[@undefinedchannel9916]

@@teamplus9362 usually no, what's your wifi company?

[@tosindaudu6595]

This just a localhost client server not a web server b\c you need a public domain

[@albertomancino4166]

​@Tonio Your internet service provider always change your IP, it's called dynamic IP. That IP is the only public IP in home networks, and is the router IP. Other machines inside your private home network have a private IP, which means that only the participant to the network can connect to the machine with that address. Sooo you need to configure your router to handle this, cause your router is your "window on the net" :)

[@peshotod]

For some reason does not work

[@minimoon300]

villager news

[@Fivisom]

I’m from Northern Ireland!

[@franceleeparis37]

Lost me...🤔

[@David-nn1cf]

No offense, but you didn't make a web server, you just used a pre-existing one from a library.

[@subcriberswithoutvideoch-br8cs]

Who is here to make minecraft server?

[@themindstorm9947]

Can you?

[@TheLichKng64]

not me but you got my like for the MC commend XD

[@anshumishra9368]

pahli baat toh ad bahut ghatiya tha kyuki usne apna in kam 2 lakh bataya per sala 7 lakh kamata hai aur hum log ko 1 lakh ka job dilayega

[@Techie-in-Cloud]

Fake accent