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Simple systemd unit file for python http server
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| [Unit] | |
| Description=http redirect | |
| # simple web service to server a index.html with a meta refresh without having to do via apache/nginx | |
| [Install] | |
| WantedBy=multi-user.target | |
| [Service] | |
| Type=simple | |
| User=root # need root to bind to port 80 | |
| WorkingDirectory=/Downloads/html/ # directory containing a index.html with a meta refresh for redirect | |
| ExecStart=python -m http.server 80 | |
| StandardOutput=null # log nothing | |
| StandardError=null # log nothing |
$ cat /Downloads/html/index.html
<html>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL='http://192.168.29.7'"/>
</html>
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I recently moved my home docker containers around and off what has been traditionally my primary server, which has now become my hypervisor running kvm with everything else disabled. Instead of using apache or nginx, I just wanted a simple, single thread to redirect traffic over to my new server - running a single python thread