[SOLVED] Tiny web server as standalone executable?

[Winfried]

Hello,

I need a basic, standalone web server with support for directory listing.

Windows' antivirus blocks Mongoose ("Trojan Win32 Wacatac.B!ml"), and neither Ritlabs Tinyweb server, Rebex Tiny Web Server, nor micro_httpd/mini_httpd provide the same features.

So I tried PyInstaller to create a standalone binary… but it fails:

www.py:

#ipconfig #how to display computer's IP address so user knows?
python -m http.server 8080

pip install -U pyinstaller

pyinstaller www.py
Syntax error in c:\temp\www.py
  File "c:\temp\www.py", line 2
     python -m http.server 8080
               ^^^^
 SyntaxError: invalid syntax

What's the right way to get a working binary?

Thank you.

--
Edit: An infinite loop is the way to go:

from http.server import HTTPServer, SimpleHTTPRequestHandler

#to listen on 192.168
addr = ("0.0.0.0", 8080)
print("Listening on " + str(addr))

httpd = HTTPServer(addr, SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)
httpd.serve_forever()

#netstat -ao | grep ^.LISTENING"

Note: PyInstaller doesn't create a single binary, standalone application: To run, the EXE requires a sub-directory (_internal) with several files:

• base_library.zip
  
• libcrypto-3.dll
  
• libssl-3.dll
  
• python312.dll
  
• select.pyd
  
• unicodedata.pyd
  
• VCRUNTIME140.dll
  
• _bz2.pyd
  
• _decimal.pyd
  
• _hashlib.pyd
  
• _lzma.pyd
  
• _socket.pyd
  
• _ssl.pyd