Python to Share your Folders Via Web Server/http

If you want to share your folders and files via a HTTP server and for one reason or another don't want dirty you the hand with the configuration of apache which can be quite complicated and can make you lose some time , so believe me it's Python you're looking for, it comes with a very simple script to use that will allow you to transform any directory / folder in web server allowing you to share content with other people,'ll get them the ability to download and upload files directly from / on this directory.

The one and only software you will need to install is Python (which is not really a software but a compiler for Python - programming language - coded scripts). Python is available in two versions, Python2 and Python3, I advise you to install both side by side in order to run all the scripts without without problems, regardless of the version of Python that they use... Click here to download Python2 and Python3 from the official site.

Installation on Windows is very simple, next next next and presto you have Python installed and functional, if you use Linux or Mac, there is a good chance that you have already pre-installed Python2, you can check by running one of following commands in the Terminal:

$ python --version

Or:

$ python -V

If you want to install python3 also it is very simple, I would do a little tutorial later, meanwhile, ask Uncle Google help.

Share a directory via a web server / HTTP:

Now that Python was installed, it's time to use it to share a directory via a web server / http.

Suppose I want to share the 'Documents' directory whose path is "/ Adnane/Documents", all I have to do is open a terminal (or CMD for Windows) place me in this directory with the command:

$ cd /Adnane/Documents

and:

Download only:

Linux and Mac with python2:

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer

Linux and Mac with python3:

$ python -m http.server

Windows with python2:

"c:\Python27\python.exe" -m SimpleHTTPServer

Windows with python3:

"c:\Python34\python.exe" -m http.erver

Note to change the figure in Red with the version that you have installed. The port used by default is 8000, you can change it by adding a space and the port you want to use after the command. Ex: $ python2 m SimpleHTTPServer 4444

Download and Upload:

To allow the upload as well as download via a web server, it's a little different but it's still very simple. Simply copy the following code which is a modified version of the default module of SipleHTTPServer that we used above, and paste it in a file and make you well to give the .py extension! me I choose to name it " serveurHTTP.py ".« .

#! / usr/bin/env python

"""Simple HTTP Server With Upload.
This module builds it by implementing the standard GET BaseHTTPServer
HEAD requests in a fairly straightforward manner.
"""

__version__ = " "0.1" "
__all__ = ["" SimpleHTTPRequestHandler]
__author__ = " "bones7456" "
__home_page__ = " "http://li2z.cn/" "

import os
import posixpath
import BaseHTTPServer
import urllib
import cgi
import shutil
import mimetypes
import re
try:
    from cStringIO import StringIO
except ImportError:
    from StringIO import StringIO

class SimpleHTTPRequestHandler (BaseHTTPServer. BaseHTTPRequestHandler):

"""Simple HTTP request handler with GET/HEAD/POST commands.
 This serves files from the current directory and any of its
 subdirectories. The MIME type for files is determined by
 calling the .guess_type() method. And can reveive file uploaded
 by client.
 The GET/HEAD/POST requests are identical except that the HEAD
 request omits the actual contents of the file.
    """

server_version = "SimpleHTTPWithUpload/" + __version__

def do_GET (self):
        """Serve a GET request."""
 f = self.send_head()
        if f:
            self.copyfile(f, self.wfile)
 f.close()

def do_HEAD (self):
        """Serve a HEAD request."""
 f = self.send_head()
        if f:
 f.close()

def do_POST (self):
        """Serve a POST request."""
 r, info = self.deal_post_data()
        print r, info, "by: ", self.client_address
 f = StringIO()
 f.write('<! DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">')
 f.write("<html>\n<title>Upload Result Page</title>\n")
 f.write("<body>\n<h2>
Upload Result Page</h2>
\n")
 f.write("<hr>
\n")
        if r:
 f.write("<b>Success:</b>")
        else:
 f.write("<b>Failed:</b>")
 f.write(info)
 f.write("<br><a href=\"%s\">back</a>" % self.headers['referer'])
 f.write("<hr>
<small>Powerd By: bones7456, check new version at ")
 f.write("<a href=\"http://li2z.cn/?s=SimpleHTTPServerWithUpload\">")
 f.write("here</a>.</small></body>\n</html>\n")
 length = f.tell()
 f.seek(0)
        self.send_response(200)
        self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")
        self.send_header("Content-Length", str(length))
        self.end_headers()
        if f:
            self.copyfile(f, self.wfile)
 f.close()
        
    def deal_post_data (self):
 boundary = self.headers.plisttext.split("=")[1]
 remainbytes = int(self.headers['content-length'])
 line = self.rfile.readline()
 remainbytes -= len(line)
        if not boundary in line:
            return (False, "Content NOT begin with boundary")
 line = self.rfile.readline()
 remainbytes -= len(line)
 fn = re.findall(r'Content-Disposition. *name="file"; filename="(. * )"', line)
        if not fn:
            return (False, "Can't find out file name... ")
 path = self.translate_path(self.path)
 fn = os.path.join(path, fn[0])
 line = self.rfile.readline()
 remainbytes -= len(line)
 line = self.rfile.readline()
 remainbytes -= len(line)
        try:
 out = open(fn, 'wb')
        except IOError:
            return (False, "Can't create file to write, do you have permission to write?")
                
 preline = self.rfile.readline()
 remainbytes -= len(preline)
        while remainbytes > 0:
 line = self.rfile.readline()
 remainbytes -= len(line)
            if boundary in line:
 preline = preline[0:-1]
                if preline.endswith('\r'):
 preline = preline[0:-1]
 out.write(preline)
 out.close()
                return (True, "File '%s' upload success!" % fn)
            else:
 out.write(preline)
 preline = line
        return (False, "Unexpect Ends of data.")

def send_head (self):
        """Common code for GET and HEAD commands.
 This sends the response code and MIME headers.
 Return value is either a file object (which has to be copied
 to the outputfile by the caller unless the command was HEAD,
 and must be closed by the caller under all circumstances), or
 None, in which case the caller has nothing further to do.
        """
 path = self.translate_path(self.path)
 f = None
        if os.path.isdir(path):
            if not self.path.endswith('/'):
                # redirect browser - doing basically what apache does
                self.send_response(301)
                self.send_header("Location", self.path + "/")
                self.end_headers()
                return None
            for index in "index.html", "index.htm":
 index = os.path.join(path, index)
                if os.path.exists(index):
 path = index
                    break
            else:
                return self.list_directory(path)
 ctype = self.guess_type(path)
        try:
            # Always read in binary mode. Opening files in text mode may cause
            # newline translations, making the actual size of the content
            # transmitted *less* than the content-length!
 f = open(path, 'rb')
        except IOError:
            self.send_error(404, "File not found")
            return None
        self.send_response(200)
        self.send_header("Content-type", ctype)
 fs = os.fstat(f.fileno())
        self.send_header("Content-Length", str(fs[6]))
        self.send_header("Last-Modified", self.date_time_string(fs.st_mtime))
        self.end_headers()
        return f

def list_directory (self, path):
        """Helper to produce a directory listing (absent index.html).
 Return value is either a file object, or None (indicating an
 error). In either case, the headers are sent, making the
 interface the same as for send_head().
        """
        try:
            list = os.listdir(path)
        except os.error:
            self.send_error(404, "No permission to list directory")
            return None
        list.sort(key=lambda a: a.lower())
 f = StringIO()
 displaypath = cgi.escape(urllib.unquote(self.path))
 f.write('<! DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">')
 f.write("<html>\n<title>Directory listing for %s</title>\n" % displaypath)
 f.write("<body>\n<h2>
Directory listing for %s</h2>
\n" % displaypath)
 f.write("<hr>
\n")
 f.write("<form ENCTYPE=\"multipart/form-data\" method=\"post\">
")
 f.write("<input name=\"file\" type=\"file\"/>")
 f.write("<input type=\"submit\" value=\"upload\"/></form>
\n")
 f.write("<hr>
\n<ul>\n")
        for name in list:
 fullname = os.path.join(path, name)
 displayname = linkname = name
            # Append / for directories or @ for symbolic links
            if os.path.isdir(fullname):
 displayname = name + "/"
 linkname = name + "/"
            if os.path.islink(fullname):
 displayname = name + "@"
                # Note: a link to a directory displays with @ and links with /
 f.write('
<li><a href="%s">%s</a>\n'
                    % (urllib.quote(linkname), cgi.escape(displayname)))
 f.write("</ul>
\n<hr>
\n</body>\n</html>\n")
 length = f.tell()
 f.seek(0)
        self.send_response(200)
        self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")
        self.send_header("Content-Length", str(length))
        self.end_headers()
        return f

def translate_path (self, path):
        """Translate a /-separated PATH to the local filename syntax.
 Components that mean special things to the local file system
 (e.g. drive or directory names) are ignored. (XXX They should
 probably be diagnosed.)
        """
        # abandon query parameters
 path = path.split('?',1)[0]
 path = path.split('#',1)[0]
 path = posixpath.normpath(urllib.unquote(path))
 words = path.split('/')
 words = filter(None, words)
 path = os.getcwd()
        for word in words:
 drive, word = os.path.splitdrive(word)
 head, word = os.path.split(word)
            if word in (os.curdir, os.pardir): continue
 path = os.path.join(path, word)
        return path

def copyfile (self, source, outputfile):
        """Copy all data between two file objects.
 The SOURCE argument is a file object open for reading
 (or anything with a read() method) and the DESTINATION
 argument is a file object open for writing (or
 anything with a write() method).
 The only reason for overriding this would be to change
 the block size or perhaps to replace newlines by CRLF
 -- note however that this the default server uses this
 to copy binary data as well.
        """
 shutil.copyfileobj(source, outputfile)

def guess_type (self, path):
        """Guess the type of a file.
 Argument is a PATH (a filename).
 Return value is a string of the form type/subtype,
 usable for a MIME Content-type header.
 The default implementation looks the file's extension
 up in the table self.extensions_map, using application/octet-stream
 as a default; however it would be permissible (if
 slow) to look inside the data to make a better guess.
        """

base, ext = posixpath.splitext(path)
        if ext in self.extensions_map:
            return self.extensions_map[ext]
 ext = ext.lower()
        if ext in self.extensions_map:
            return self.extensions_map[ext]
        else:
            return self.extensions_map['']

if not mimetypes.inited:
 mimetypes.init() # try to read system mime.types
 extensions_map = mimetypes.types_map.copy()
 extensions_map.update({
        '': 'application/octet-stream', # Default
         '.py':  '' text/plain,
         '.c':  '' text/plain,
         '.h':  '' text/plain,
        })

def test (HandlerClass = SimpleHTTPRequestHandler,
         ServerClass = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer):
 BaseHTTPServer.test (HandlerClass, ServerClass)

If __name__ ==  '' __main__:
 test()

You you are already placed in the directory that you want to share isn't it? cool, now run one of the following command:

Linux and Mac:

$ python /répertoire_du_script/nom_du_script.py

Windows:

"c:\Python27\python.exe" /répertoire_du_script/nom_du_script.py

This script is like I had you said based on the SipleHTTPServer python module, so automatically it also it uses 8000 as default for the web server port, and Yes you guessed it for this script also can indicate a different port after thecommand.

Access the server:

To access the server that we launched just use as url " votre_adresse_ip:le_port_utilise", it's as simple as that!

To retrieve your address internal IP run the command ipconfig for Windows or ifconfig for Linux and Mac. When to votrez public IP address, use a service like whatismyipaddress.com to know her.

EXAMPLE: 192.168.1.16:8000

Please note that if you will share the server with a person who is outside of your network must Open the port that you will use in your box internet and give it votre_ip_publique:le_port !

I guess that you already know but I'll tell you anyway, if you have a file index.html in the shared directory, this file will be executed automatically by the browser, this is very useful if you are working on a website and you want toshow your progress to your friends, colleagues or superiors.

This tutorial comes to an end, I hope that you have been useful, if yes do not hesitate to share it with your friends, see you soon!

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Download only:

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