A simple website with python using SimpleHTTPServer and SocketServer, how to only display the html file and not the whole directory?

Question

How do I only display simplehttpwebsite_content.html when I visit localhost:8080? So that I can\'t see my filetree, only the webpage. All these fil

Answer 1

Building on Susam Pal's answer, here is my implementation which allows the port to be set (just like when you run python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080) and also serves up html pages when the file exists on the file server, without the .html extension.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import SimpleHTTPServer
import SocketServer
import os.path
import sys

class MyRequestHandler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_GET(self):            
        possible_name = self.path.strip("/")+'.html'
        if self.path == '/':
            # default routing, instead of "index.html"
            self.path = '/simplehttpwebpage_content.html'
        elif os.path.isfile(possible_name):
            # extensionless page serving
            self.path = possible_name

        return SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.do_GET(self)

Handler = MyRequestHandler

port = 8000
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
    try:
        p = int(sys.argv[1])
        port = p
    except ValueError:
        print "port value provided must be an integer"

print "serving on port {0}".format(port)
server = SocketServer.TCPServer(('0.0.0.0', port), Handler)
server.serve_forever()