I miss the 'ol PHP/Apache days of throwing random files/folders on a web server. I want to try to bring that back to Python land (maybe).
This is an experiment — it might not go very far.
- You can shove shit in a directory, and it'll just get served automatically.
- Use flask (or any other WSGI framework) if you want to, no configuration needed.
- No maintinence/deployment required to make changes — just make changes to the filesystem.
The real end goal here is to have a Python application running at playground.kennethreitz.org on a
Digital Ocean box that can be used to host all sorts of applications and random files for fun, just
by managing the filesystem — like it was back in the PHP days.
Subject to (vastly) change:
root/index.py <--gets served by default
root/sometoy/somefile.txt <-- gets served
root/sometoy/index.py <-- gets run automatically for /sometoy/, stdout is output.
Likely a CLI runner, akin to:
$ index.py .
# spawns gunicorn app for you, with additional arguments.