Simple, ready to use static file server script using CherryPy and python 3.
It allows you to navigate into subdirectories if the path specified has any.
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Simple CherryPy Static Server
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| """Simple CherryPy Static Server.""" | |
| import os | |
| import os.path | |
| import cherrypy | |
| import cgi | |
| FILES_DIR = "D:/Books" | |
| ORDERED_LIST = False | |
| def get_dir_entries(path): | |
| """Return directories and files found at path.""" | |
| entries = os.scandir(path) | |
| dirs = {} | |
| files = {} | |
| for entry in entries: | |
| base_name = entry.name | |
| abs_name = entry.path | |
| if entry.is_file(): | |
| files[base_name] = abs_name | |
| elif not entry.name.startswith('.') and entry.is_dir(): | |
| dirs[base_name] = abs_name | |
| return ( | |
| ((k, dirs[k]) for k in sorted(dirs.keys())), | |
| ((k, files[k]) for k in sorted(files.keys())) | |
| ) | |
| class FileServer(object): | |
| """Serve the files and allows navigation to subdirectories.""" | |
| @cherrypy.expose | |
| def index(self, path=None): | |
| """Create html page with a list of files from a path.""" | |
| print("session_id: {}".format(cherrypy.session.id)) | |
| list_type = 'ol' if ORDERED_LIST else 'ul' | |
| # path = cherrypy.session.set("_cur_path", path) | |
| base_str = os.path.split(FILES_DIR)[-1] | |
| abs_path = FILES_DIR | |
| if path is not None: | |
| base_str = os.path.join(base_str, path).replace("\\", "/") | |
| abs_path = os.path.join(abs_path, path).replace("\\", "/") | |
| dirs, files = get_dir_entries(abs_path) | |
| file_icon = chr(int("1F4C4", 16)) | |
| folder_icon = chr(int("1F4C1", 16)) | |
| html = [] | |
| html.append('<html><body><%s>' % list_type) | |
| html.append("<h2>%s</h2><hr>" % base_str) | |
| if path is not None and path != "": | |
| previous = os.path.split(path)[0] | |
| print("previous \"{}\"".format(previous)) | |
| if previous == "": | |
| html.append("<li><a href=\"index\">{} ..</a></li>".format( | |
| folder_icon) | |
| ) | |
| else: | |
| html.append( | |
| "<li><a href=\"index?path={}\">{} ..</a></li>".format( | |
| previous, | |
| folder_icon)) | |
| for tup in dirs: | |
| dname, abs_dname = tup | |
| # print("dirs tup", tup) | |
| if path is not None and path != "": | |
| continuos_dname = "/".join((path, dname)) | |
| else: | |
| continuos_dname = dname | |
| html.append("<li><a href=\"index?path={}\">{} {}</a></li>".format( | |
| continuos_dname, | |
| folder_icon, | |
| dname)) | |
| html.append("<br>") | |
| for tup in files: | |
| fname, abs_fname = tup | |
| html.append("<li><a href=\"{}\">{} {}</a></li>".format( | |
| cgi.escape(fname, True), | |
| file_icon, | |
| cgi.escape(fname))) | |
| html.append('</%s></body></html>' % list_type) | |
| return "\n".join(html) | |
| if __name__ == '__main__': | |
| cherrypy.config.update({ | |
| 'server.socket_host': '0.0.0.0', | |
| 'server.socket_port': 8001, | |
| }) | |
| conf = { | |
| '/': { | |
| 'tools.staticdir.on': True, | |
| 'tools.staticdir.dir': FILES_DIR, | |
| 'tools.sessions.on': True, | |
| 'tools.sessions.timeout': 60 # minutes | |
| } | |
| } | |
| cherrypy.quickstart(FileServer(), config=conf) |
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@LukeMS I tried with the above code, to list my sub-directories through the index page and it's not working. Could you help me and try to run on my local mac.