Start a local webserver into the current directory, for serving local static files. (This is useful when testing ajax locally on json, for example.)

webserver.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# start an http webserver serving static files from the local directory, using python

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 7777 &

webserver_3.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# start an http webserver serving static files from the local directory, using python 3+

python -m http.server 7777 &

webserver_custom.py

#!/usr/bin/python

# python-programmed example, as a base for customization:
# this example is not mine, but taken from: http://www.acmesystems.it/python_httpserver
# (where there are other good examples! ;-)
#

from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler,HTTPServer

PORT_NUMBER = 7777

#This class will handles any incoming request from
#the browser 
class myHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
	
	#Handler for the GET requests
	def do_GET(self):
		self.send_response(200)
		self.send_header('Content-type','text/html')
		self.end_headers()
		# Send the html message
		self.wfile.write("Hello World !")
		return

try:
	#Create a web server and define the handler to manage the
	#incoming request
	server = HTTPServer(('', PORT_NUMBER), myHandler)
	print 'Started httpserver on port ' , PORT_NUMBER
	
	#Wait forever for incoming htto requests
	server.serve_forever()

except KeyboardInterrupt:
	print '^C received, shutting down the web server'
	server.socket.close()