'''
Taken from:
http://stackoverflow.com/users/993133/pd40
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15401815/python-simplehttpserver
'''

import SimpleHTTPServer, SocketServer
import urlparse, os

PORT = 3000
INDEXFILE = '/index.html'

class MyHandler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
   def do_GET(self):

    # Parse query data to find out what was requested
    parsedParams = urlparse.urlparse(self.path)

     # See if the file requested exists
    if os.access('.' + os.sep + parsedParams.path, os.R_OK):
        # File exists, serve it up
        SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.do_GET(self);
    else:
        # redirect to index.html
        self.send_response(302)
        self.send_header('Content-Type', 'text/html')  
        self.send_header('location', INDEXFILE)  
        self.end_headers()

Handler = MyHandler

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

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