Fixing #1038 by allowing nice URLs.

pelican/server.py

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import print_function
+import os
 import sys
+import logging
 try:
     import SimpleHTTPServer as srvmod
 except ImportError:
@@ -11,19 +13,36 @@
     import socketserver  # NOQA
 
 PORT = len(sys.argv) == 2 and int(sys.argv[1]) or 8000
+SUFFIXES = ['','.html','/index.html']
 
-Handler = srvmod.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
+class ComplexHTTPRequestHandler(srvmod.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
+    def do_GET(self):
+        # we are trying to detect the file by having a fallback mechanism
+        r = None
+        for suffix in SUFFIXES:
+            if not hasattr(self,'original_path'):
+                self.original_path = self.path
+            self.path = self.original_path + suffix
+            path = self.translate_path(self.path)
+            if os.path.exists(path):
+                r = srvmod.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.do_GET(self)
+            if r is not None:
+                break
+            logging.warning("Unable to find %s file." % self.path)
+        return r
+
+Handler = ComplexHTTPRequestHandler
 
 try:
     httpd = socketserver.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler)
 except OSError as e:
-    print("Could not listen on port", PORT)
+    logging.error("Could not listen on port %s" % PORT)
     sys.exit(getattr(e, 'exitcode', 1))
 
 
-print("serving at port", PORT)
+logging.info("serving at port %s" % PORT)
 try:
     httpd.serve_forever()
 except KeyboardInterrupt as e:
-    print("shutting down server")
-    httpd.socket.close()
+    logging.info("shutting down server")
+    httpd.socket.close()