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:

    Next, we create an instance of the File resource pointed at the directory to serve:

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    resource = File("/tmp")
    Then we create an instance of the Site factory with that resource:

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    factory = Site(resource)
    Now we glue that factory to a TCP port:

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    reactor.listenTCP(8888, factory)
    Finally, we start the reactor so it can make the program work:

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    reactor.run()
    And that's it. Here's the complete program:

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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
    
    will accomplish the same thing as the above server. See helper programs in the Twisted Core documentation for more information on using twistd.

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