The examples all show setting browse_root to something explicitly, and I discovered by trial and error that in fact there is no default---the server comes up, but gives 500s. My unix intuition assumed that it would working in the working directory unless told otherwise---that's how other small webservers, like thttpd and webfsd and http/server.py work, afterall.
The examples all show setting
browse_root
to something explicitly, and I discovered by trial and error that in fact there is no default---the server comes up, but gives 500s. My unix intuition assumed that it would working in the working directory unless told otherwise---that's how other small webservers, like thttpd and webfsd and http/server.py work, afterall.What do you think?