Serving Static Content From a Directory

The goal of this example is to show you how to serve static content from a filesystem. First, we need to import some objects:

• Site, an IProtocolFactory which glues a listening server port (IListeningPort) to the HTTPChannel implementation:

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  from twisted.web.server import Site
  

• File, an IResource which glues the HTTP protocol implementation to the filesystem:

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  from twisted.web.static import File
  

• The reactor, which drives the whole process, actually accepting TCP connections and moving bytes into and out of them:

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  from twisted.internet import reactor
  

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resource = File("/tmp")

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factory = Site(resource)

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reactor.listenTCP(8888, factory)

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reactor.run()

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from twisted.web.server import Site
from twisted.web.static import File
from twisted.internet import reactor

resource = File('/tmp')
factory = Site(resource)
reactor.listenTCP(8888, factory)
reactor.run()

Bonus example! For those times when you don't actually want to write a new program, the above implemented functionality is one of the things the command line twistd tool can do. In this case, the command

twistd -n web --path /tmp