How do I serve and log my current directory with a python web server?

Question

I need to create a webserver that will respond to GET requests by serving pages from a specified folder, as well as log the pages the user is GETting, and the IP of the user.

The main trouble comes from me not knowing how to serve the directory listing to the user when overriding the do_GET method. Here is my code so far:

 #!/usr/bin/env python
    import logging
    import SimpleHTTPServer
    import SocketServer
    import SimpleHTTPServer
    import BaseHTTPServer
    import os


    PORT = 8001
    LOG_FILENAME = 'log.txt'
    logging.basicConfig(filename=LOG_FILENAME,level=logging.DEBUG)

    class MyHandler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
        def do_GET(self):
            try:
                #self.send_response(200)
                #self.send_header('Content-type', 'text/html')
                #self.end_headers();
                #self.list_directory(self.path)
                #os.listdir()
                logging.debug('Test text')            
            except IOError:
                print "nothing"

    Handler = SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler


    httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer(("", PORT), MyHandler)

    print "serving at port", PORT
    httpd.serve_forever()

Answer 1

You need to use dir_listing() to list directories. Rather than writing it here, I would suggest you look at the python cookbook/ recipes for detailed directions and understanding.

1. http://code.activestate.com/recipes/392879-my-first-application-server/