Linux Administration Cookbook

How to do it...

We're going to again use Python's built-in web server, starting an instance using a small unit file.

First, create the directory in which we're going to store our unit file:

$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/systemd/system

Next, we're going to echo the following into a file called pythonWebServer.service:

$ sudo tee /usr/local/lib/systemd/system/pythonWebServer.service << HERE[Unit]Description=Python Web Server Example[Service]ExecStart=/usr/bin/python2.7 -m SimpleHTTPServer[Install]WantedBy=multi-user.targetHERE

This unit file is for demonstration purposes only, and should absolutely not be used in production.

Now we can enable and start it:

$ sudo systemctl enable --now pythonWebServerCreated symlink from /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/pythonWebServer.service ...