Daemonizing python's BaseHTTPServer

After a bit of googling I finally stumbled over this BaseHTTPServer documentation and after that I ended up with:

from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
from SocketServer import ThreadingMixIn

class ThreadedHTTPServer(ThreadingMixIn, HTTPServer):
  """Handle requests in a separate thread."""

server = ThreadedHTTPServer((config['HTTPServer']['listen'],config['HTTPServer']['port']), HTTPHandler)
server.serve_forever()

Which for the most part comes after I fork and ended up resolving my problem.

Here's how to do this with the python-daemon library:

from BaseHTTPServer import (HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler)
import contextlib

import daemon

from my_app_config import config

# Make the HTTP Server instance.
server = HTTPServer(
    (config['HTTPServer']['listen'], config['HTTPServer']['port']),
    BaseHTTPRequestHandler)

# Make the context manager for becoming a daemon process.
daemon_context = daemon.DaemonContext()
daemon_context.files_preserve = [server.fileno()]

# Become a daemon process.
with daemon_context:
    server.serve_forever()

As usual for a daemon, you need to decide how you will interact with the program after it becomes a daemon. For example, you might register a systemd service, or write a PID file, etc. That's all outside the scope of the question though.

In particular, it's outside the scope of the question to ask: once it's become a daemon process (necessarily detached from any controlling terminal), how do I stop the daemon process? That's up to you to decide, as part of defining the program's behaviour.

You start by instantiating a HTTPServer. But you don't actually tell it to start serving in any of the supplied code. In your child process try calling server.serve_forever().

See this for reference