How run web software *locally* easily?

[seberino]

If grandma wanted to run some web application software (HTML files,
CGI/Python scripts)
*locally*, must she install a full blown Apache server with all the
trimmings??

Is there some easy way to somehow perhaps embed a minimal web server in
a Python tar ball
or some other clever trick to make grandma's life easier?

Chris

[Paul Rubin]

"se******@spawar.navy.mil" <se******@spawar.navy.mil> writes:

Is there some easy way to somehow perhaps embed a minimal web server in
a Python tar ball

Yes, sure, see any of the HTTP server classes in the stdlib.
Just listen on a localhost socket and pop a browser to point to that socket.

[sébastien]

for example like that: python -m CGIHTTPServer

[Fuzzyman]

For development I run my own modified version of CGIHTTPServer.

It is called CGITHTTPServerWithSSI -
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/recipebook.shtml#ssi

It implements *some* SSI functions and allows you to maintain sites in
*two* folders. A main folder and a second 'development' folder that
just has stuff you're working on. It looks in the development folder
first.

The HTTPServer classes make great base classes for messing around with
your own custom implementations for testing.

All the best,

Fuzzyman
http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/index.shtml