On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 05:32:54AM +0100, Stroller wrote > Consider this installation-free alternative: > http://www.google.co.uk/searchq=one+line+python+web+server
This. Here's a Gentoo-specific script, which I saved as "~/bin/webd" that handles Python 2 and 3... =================================================== #!/bin/bash cd ${1} current_python=`eselect python show` if [ "${current_python:0:7}" == "python2" ]; then python -m SimpleHTTPServer elif [ "${current_python:0:7}" == "python3" ]; then python -m http.server 8000 fi =================================================== If it's called as simply "webd", it serves up my home directory. If it's called as "webd /usr/portage/distfiles" it allows access to my distfiles directory. Note that the user that launches webd has to have at least read access to the directories to be served. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>