Script to start a local server in the current directory. Basically a fancy SimpleHTTPServer, in that it's accessible by other devices on your LAN and it prints out the server address on startup.

serve-me-up.py

#! /usr/bin/python
# Server config: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4139170/bind-httserver-to-local-ipport-so-that-others-in-lan-can-see-it
# IP address: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/166506/finding-local-ip-addresses-using-pythons-stdlib
import socket
import BaseHTTPServer
from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
 
# Announce the IP address and port we will serve on
port = 8000
print("Serving on %s:%s") % (socket.gethostbyname(socket.getfqdn()), port)
 
# Start a server to accept traffic
addr = ("0.0.0.0", port)
server = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(addr, SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)
server.serve_forever()