creativeaura · May 9, 2013 10:34 · May 9, 2013
diff --git a/server.py b/server.py
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+import os
+import posixpath
+import urllib
+import BaseHTTPServer
+from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
+
+# modify this to add additional routes
+ROUTES = (
+    # [url_prefix ,  directory_path]
+    ['/media', '/var/www/media'],
+    ['',       '/var/www/site']  # empty string for the 'default' match
+) 
+
+class RequestHandler(SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
+
+    def translate_path(self, path):
+        """translate path given routes"""
+
+        # set default root to cwd
+        root = os.getcwd()
+
+        # look up routes and set root directory accordingly
+        for pattern, rootdir in ROUTES:
+            if path.startswith(pattern):
+                # found match!
+                path = path[len(pattern):]  # consume path up to pattern len
+                root = rootdir
+                break
+
+        # normalize path and prepend root directory
+        path = path.split('?',1)[0]
+        path = path.split('#',1)[0]
+        path = posixpath.normpath(urllib.unquote(path))
+        words = path.split('/')
+        words = filter(None, words)
+
+        path = root
+        for word in words:
+            drive, word = os.path.splitdrive(word)
+            head, word = os.path.split(word)
+            if word in (os.curdir, os.pardir):
+                continue
+            path = os.path.join(path, word)
+
+        return path
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    BaseHTTPServer.test(RequestHandler, BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer)