[Tutor] Web Server

[Kent Johnson]

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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