[Tutor] Web Server

[Ryan]

Awesome, thanks, I also forgot to check the error messages(had to go to
command line and run it as root)
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 14:05 -0500, Kent Johnson wrote:
> Ryan wrote:
> > I copied a webserver from one O'Reilly's books, but it only works under
> > windows. Can anyone tell me what to change to get it to work under
> > linux?
> 
> What happens when you try it? My guess is you get an error opening a 
> socket to listen to port 80. Try port 8000.
> 
> Kent
> 
> > Here is the code:
> > 
> > webdir = '.'
> > port = 80
> > 
> > import os, sys
> > from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer
> > from CGIHTTPServer import CGIHTTPRequestHandler
> > 
> > if len(sys.argv) > 1: webdir = sys.argv[1]
> > if len(sys.argv) > 2: port = int(sys.argv[2])
> > print 'webdir "%s", port %s' % (webdir, port)
> > 
> > if sys.platform[:3] == 'win':
> >     CGIHTTPRequestHandler.have_popen2 = False
> >     CGIHTTPRequestHandler.have_popen3 = False
> >     sys.path.append('cgi-bin')
> > 
> > os.chdir(webdir)
> > srvaddr = ("", port)
> > srvobj = HTTPServer(srvaddr, CGIHTTPRequestHandler)
> > srvobj.serve_forever()
> > 
> > 
> > 
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