Getting python scripts to run in http simple server

Question

I have a simple python script that I want to serve as a website:

import SimpleHTTPServer
import SocketServer

PORT = 8000

Handler = SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler

httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler)

print "serving at port", PORT
httpd.serve_forever()

I'm in that folder and run

$ python3 -m http.server

then I visit http://hassbian.local:8000/song.py

The terminal says this and I get the file as a txt file, the script won't execute.

Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...
192.168.1.115 - - [04/Jun/2017 14:19:59] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 -
192.168.1.115 - - [04/Jun/2017 14:20:04] "GET /song.py HTTP/1.1" 200 -

Running on a rasberry pi

You cannot execute scripts like this. python3 -m http.server will simply serve files from the directory on which you ran it. — thefourtheye
– thefourtheye, Commented Jun 4, 2017 at 12:27
It doesn't really have to be python, any simple scripting language is fine by me. — Himmators
– Himmators, Commented Jun 4, 2017 at 12:31
What do you want to do? You want to build a website or something else? — Sraw
– Sraw, Commented Jun 4, 2017 at 12:36

e4c5 · Accepted Answer · 2019-01-31 13:29:59Z

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SimpleHTTPServer doesn't do CGI. If you want CGI you will have to use CGIHTTPServer

This module can run CGI scripts on Unix and Windows systems.

I am not sure if that's what you really want, but invoking a python script in the manner you have shown is CGI. CGI is a really old way of doing things. Running simple web apps with python is now almost exclusively the domain of webapp2 or flask. While more complex apps involving databases are dominated by django.

edited Jan 31, 2019 at 13:29

answered Jun 4, 2017 at 12:43

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3 Comments

Himmators Over a year ago

great info, cgi seems nice since it's already running on my rasberry pi, I'm creating a small webservice that will serve a couple of files in a folder as a json-object, would cgi be enough?

e4c5 Over a year ago

Well if it's just json, SimpleHTTPServer is fine. Your question showed you trying to run a python file.

Himmators Over a year ago

Well, it's a dynamically created json file, based on the contents of a folder.

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