simple-server.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import os
from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler,HTTPServer

PORT_NUMBER = os.getenv('APP_PORT', 8080)

#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:
    server = HTTPServer(('', int(PORT_NUMBER)), myHandler)
    print 'myHandler started httpserver on port ' , PORT_NUMBER
    server.serve_forever()
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    print '^C received, shutting down the web server'
    server.socket.close()