I am building a wsgi application. The production environment is Apache mod_wsgi and configured appropriately. For development, I use wsgiref.simple_server to serve the wsgi app locally. However, I would like my dev server to serve static content also with minimal overhead. For purposes of answering the question, assume I want to serve static file "/favicon.ico". I have come across the package "static": http://lukearno.com/projects/static/ but found the documentation a bit lacking, and haven't been able to configure it to serve both static content and my application. Here is a sample wsgi application. from cgi import parse_qs def application(environ, start_response): qs = parse_qs(environ['QUERY_STRING']) response_body, content_type = ('Hello World', ('Content-type', 'text/plain')) content_length = 0 for s in response_body: content_length += len(s) status = '200 OK' response_headers = [content_type, ('Content-Length', str(content_length))] start_response(status, response_headers) return response_body if __name__ == '__main__': from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server # Instantiate the WSGI web server. httpd = make_server('192.168.1.1', # The host name. 8080, # A port number where to wait for the request. application # Our application object name, in this case a function. ) httpd.serve_forever() Note: This may be a duplicate of unanswered question Serving static content with python wsgiref? from December. I wanted to add more than just a comment and did not want to dig up a dead thread. Continue reading...
