[elbe-devel] [PATCH] quickstart: add Python's SimpleHTTPServer example

[Yegor Yefremov]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 1:34 PM, Andrey Skvortsov
<andrej.skvortzov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17-07-11 12:52, yegorslists at googlemail.com wrote:
>> From: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists at googlemail.com>
>>
>> SimpleHTTPServer provides a simple replacement for a temporary
>> webserver.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists at googlemail.com>
>> ---
>>  docs/quickstart.txt | 8 +++++++-
>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/docs/quickstart.txt b/docs/quickstart.txt
>> index ea608e5..4b3c4c8 100644
>> --- a/docs/quickstart.txt
>> +++ b/docs/quickstart.txt
>> @@ -352,7 +352,13 @@ $ reprepro include jessie ../path/to/your/*.changes
>>  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>  To use this repository from ELBE you need a webserver. Simply place the
>> -repository inside the document root of your webserver.
>> +repository inside the document root of your webserver. If you don't want to
>> +setup a full-fledged webserver you can invoke the command below from inside the
>> +`repo` directory to make your custom repository available on port 80:
>> +
>> +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> +$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 80
>
> IMHO it would be better to run it on the port over 1024 without root privileges.

Good point.

Will apt try 8080 by default, if 80 is not accessible?

Yegor