Python Web server with Bottle

Once again, this is going to be a simple tutorial on how to create a simple web server. But this time I will be using python and Bottle web framework.

First things first. Assuming you have python installed on your PC, lets install pip which is a tool for installing python packages. apt-get install pip is the command that you would easily use within a linux system. You could also go to their website and get it downloaded right away.

Now that you have pip installed, lets install the web framework:

pip install bottle

Now its time for the code. Inside your .py file, lets first import the required methods:

from bottle import route, run, template

Next, using the route method we set a URL that the server would listen on:

@route('/welcome/<name>')

where name is a variable that the program would handle. Basically our goal is to print a welcome message along with the name passed after 'welcome/' in the URL. To achieve that, we shall use:

def index(name):
    return template('<h1>Welcome {{text}}</h1>', text=name)

Next, we setup the address and port on which the server would be listening on:

run(host='127.0.0.1', port=8080)

Complete code

from bottle import route, run, template

@route('/welcome/<name>')
def index(name):
    return template('<h1>Welcome {{text}}!</h1>', text=name)

run(host='127.0.0.1', port=8080)