Re: Python web server weirdness SOLVED
Steven D'Aprano wrote: Never mind -- it turned out I had an "index.html" file in the directory which had been wget'ed from LiveJournal. That's okay, then. The other possibility was that your computer had been recruited into an evil botnet set up by LiveJournal to create backup servers for their site... -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python web server weirdness
On Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:32:10 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > python3.5 -m http.server 8000 [...] Thank you to everyone who responded, pointing out that I should check for an index.html file. That was exactly the problem. And yes, I acknowledge that my original post was lacking in some necessary debugging detail. Mea culpa. -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python web server weirdness
On 2018-06-07 13:32, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> I'm following the instructions here:
>
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html
>
> and running this from the command line as a regular unprivileged
> user:
>
> python3.5 -m http.server 8000
>
> What I expected was a directory listing of my current directory.
>
> What I got was Livejournal's front page.
A couple things to check:
1) you don't mention which URL you pointed your browser at. I
*presume* it was http://localhost:8000 but without confirmation, it's
hard to tell. Also, you don't mention if you had anything in the
{path} portion of the URL such as
"http://localhost:8000/livejournal_homepage.html;
2) you don't mention whether your command succeeded with "Serving
HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000" or if it failed because perhaps something
else was listening on that port ("OSError: [Errno 98] Address already
in use").
3) when your browser made the request to that localhost URL, did that
command produce output logging the incoming requests?
4) do you have any funky redirection for localhost in your /etc/hosts
file (or corresponding file location on Windows)
-tkc
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Re: Python web server weirdness
On 2018-06-07 14:32, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I'm following the instructions here: > > https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html > > > and running this from the command line as a regular unprivileged user: > > python3.5 -m http.server 8000 > > What I expected was a directory listing of my current directory. > > What I got was Livejournal's front page. > > W.T.F.??? > > Do you have LiveJournal's index.html in your current directory? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python web server weirdness SOLVED
On Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:32:10 +, Steven D'Aprano wrote: [...] > python3.5 -m http.server 8000 > > What I expected was a directory listing of my current directory. > > What I got was Livejournal's front page. Never mind -- it turned out I had an "index.html" file in the directory which had been wget'ed from LiveJournal. When I deleted that, it worked as expected. -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python web server weirdness
On 2018-06-07, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I'm following the instructions here: > > https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html > > > and running this from the command line as a regular unprivileged user: > > python3.5 -m http.server 8000 > > What I expected was a directory listing of my current directory. > > What I got was Livejournal's front page. That's very odd. What I get is the message below: $ python3.5 -m http.server 8000 Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I invented skydiving at in 1989! gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Python web server weirdness
On 2018-06-07, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > I'm following the instructions here: > > https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html > > > and running this from the command line as a regular unprivileged user: > > python3.5 -m http.server 8000 > > What I expected was a directory listing of my current directory. > > What I got was Livejournal's front page. Looking into the crystal ball and guessing that "got" means you pointed a browser at "http://localhost:8000/;... Do you have a file named "index.html" in your home directory? https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html If the request was mapped to a directory, the directory is checked for a file named index.html or index.htm (in that order). If found, the file’s contents are returned; -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I want another at RE-WRITE on my CEASAR gmail.comSALAD!! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Python web server weirdness
I'm following the instructions here: https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.server.html and running this from the command line as a regular unprivileged user: python3.5 -m http.server 8000 What I expected was a directory listing of my current directory. What I got was Livejournal's front page. W.T.F.??? -- Steven D'Aprano "Ever since I learned about confirmation bias, I've been seeing it everywhere." -- Jon Ronson -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
