| name | description |
|---|---|
| Version | 2.3.2 |
| Date: | 2024-11-24 |
| Source | https://github.com/pypiserver/pypiserver |
| PyPI | https://pypi.org/project/pypiserver/ |
| Tests | https://github.com/pypiserver/pypiserver/actions |
| Maintainers | @ankostis, @mplanchard, @dee-me-tree-or-love, @pawamoy, Someone new? We are open for new maintainers! #397 |
| License | zlib/libpng + MIT |
| Community | https://pypiserver.zulipchat.com |
[!TIP] Reach out in Discussions, or chat with us on Zulip
pypiserver is a minimal PyPI compatible server for pip or easy_install. It is based on bottle and serves packages from regular directories. Wheels, bdists, eggs and accompanying PGP-signatures can be uploaded either with pip, setuptools, twine, pypi-uploader, or simply copied with scp.
[!Note] The official software powering PyPI is Warehouse. However, Warehouse is fairly specialized to be pypi.org's own software, and should not be used in other contexts. In particular, it does not officially support being used as a custom package index by users wishing to serve their own packages.
pypiserver implements the same interfaces as PyPI, allowing standard Python packaging tooling such as pip and twine to interact with it as a package index just as they would with PyPI, while making it much easier to get a running index server.
Table of Contents
pypiserver works with Python 3.6+ and PyPy3.
Older Python versions may still work, but they are not tested.
For legacy Python versions, use pypiserver-1.x series. Note that these are not officially supported, and will not receive bugfixes or new features.
[!TIP]
The commands below work on a unix-like operating system with a posix shell. The '~' character expands to user's home directory.
If you're using Windows, you'll have to use their "Windows counterparts". The same is true for the rest of this documentation.
Install pypiserver with this command
pip install pypiserver # Or: pypiserver[passlib,cache]
mkdir ~/packages # Copy packages into this directory.
[!TIP] See also Alternative Installation methods
Copy some packages into your ~/packages folder and then get your pypiserver up and running
pypi-server run -p 8080 ~/packages & # Will listen to all IPs.
From the client computer, type this
# Download and install hosted packages.
pip install --extra-index-url http://localhost:8080/simple/ ...
# or
pip install --extra-index-url http://localhost:8080 ...
# Search hosted packages.
pip search --index http://localhost:8080 ...
# Note that pip search does not currently work with the /simple/ endpoint.
[!TIP] See also Client-side configurations for avoiding tedious typing.
Enter pypi-server -h in the cmd-line to print a detailed usage message
usage: pypi-server [-h] [-v] [--log-file FILE] [--log-stream STREAM]
[--log-frmt FORMAT] [--hash-algo HASH_ALGO]
[--backend {auto,simple-dir,cached-dir}] [--version]
{run,update} ...
start PyPI compatible package server serving packages from PACKAGES_DIRECTORY. If PACKAGES_DIRECTORY is not given on the command line, it uses the default ~/packages. pypiserver scans this directory recursively for packages. It skips packages and directories starting with a dot. Multiple package directories may be specified.
positional arguments:
{run,update}
run Run pypiserver, serving packages from
PACKAGES_DIRECTORY
update Handle updates of packages managed by pypiserver. By
default, a pip command to update the packages is
printed to stdout for introspection or pipelining. See
the `-x` option for updating packages directly.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --verbose Enable verbose logging; repeat for more verbosity.
--log-file FILE Write logging info into this FILE, as well as to
stdout or stderr, if configured.
--log-stream STREAM Log messages to the specified STREAM. Valid values are
stdout, stderr, and none
--log-frmt FORMAT The logging format-string. (see `logging.LogRecord`
class from standard python library)
--hash-algo HASH_ALGO
Any `hashlib` available algorithm to use for
generating fragments on package links. Can be disabled
with one of (0, no, off, false).
--backend {auto,simple-dir,cached-dir}
A backend implementation. Keep the default 'auto' to
automatically determine whether to activate caching or
not
--version show program's version number and exit
Visit https://github.com/pypiserver/pypiserver for more information
Enter pypi-server run -h in the cmd-line to print a detailed usage
usage: pypi-server run [-h] [-v] [--log-file FILE] [--log-stream STREAM]
[--log-frmt FORMAT] [--hash-algo HASH_ALGO]
[--backend {auto,simple-dir,cached-dir}] [--version]
[-p PORT] [-i HOST] [-a AUTHENTICATE]
[-P PASSWORD_FILE] [--disable-fallback]
[--fallback-url FALLBACK_URL]
[--health-endpoint HEALTH_ENDPOINT] [--server METHOD]
[-o] [--welcome HTML_FILE] [--cache-control AGE]
[--log-req-frmt FORMAT] [--log-res-frmt FORMAT]
[--log-err-frmt FORMAT]
[package_directory [package_directory ...]]
positional arguments:
package_directory The directory from which to serve packages.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --verbose Enable verbose logging; repeat for more verbosity.
--log-file FILE Write logging info into this FILE, as well as to
stdout or stderr, if configured.
--log-stream STREAM Log messages to the specified STREAM. Valid values are
stdout, stderr, and none
--log-frmt FORMAT The logging format-string. (see `logging.LogRecord`
class from standard python library)
--hash-algo HASH_ALGO
Any `hashlib` available algorithm to use for
generating fragments on package links. Can be disabled
with one of (0, no, off, false).
--backend {auto,simple-dir,cached-dir}
A backend implementation. Keep the default 'auto' to
automatically determine whether to activate caching or
not
--version show program's version number and exit
-p PORT, --port PORT Listen on port PORT (default: 8080)
-i HOST, -H HOST, --interface HOST, --host HOST
Listen on interface INTERFACE (default: 0.0.0.0)
-a AUTHENTICATE, --authenticate AUTHENTICATE
Comma-separated list of (case-insensitive) actions to
authenticate (options: download, list, update;
default: update).
Any actions not specified are not authenticated, so
to authenticate downloads and updates, but allow
unauthenticated viewing of the package list, you would
use:
pypi-server -a 'download, update' -P
./my_passwords.htaccess
To disable authentication, use:
pypi-server -a . -P .
See the `-P` option for configuring users and
passwords.
Note that when uploads are not protected, the
`register` command is not necessary, but `~/.pypirc`
still needs username and password fields, even if
bogus.
-P PASSWORD_FILE, --passwords PASSWORD_FILE
Use an apache htpasswd file PASSWORD_FILE to set
usernames and passwords for authentication.
To allow unauthorized access, use:
pypi-server -a . -P .
--disable-fallback Disable the default redirect to PyPI for packages not
found in the local index.
--fallback-url FALLBACK_URL
Redirect to FALLBACK_URL for packages not found in the
local index.
--health-endpoint HEALTH_ENDPOINT
Configure a custom liveness endpoint. It always
returns 200 Ok if the service is up. Otherwise, it
means that the service is not responsive.
--server METHOD Use METHOD to run the server. Valid values include
paste, cherrypy, twisted, gunicorn, gevent, wsgiref,
and auto. The default is to use "auto", which chooses
one of paste, cherrypy, twisted, or wsgiref.
-o, --overwrite Allow overwriting existing package files during
upload.
--welcome HTML_FILE Use the contents of HTML_FILE as a custom welcome
message on the home page.
--cache-control AGE Add "Cache-Control: max-age=AGE" header to package
downloads. Pip 6+ requires this for caching.AGE is
specified in seconds.
--log-req-frmt FORMAT
A format-string selecting Http-Request properties to
log; set to '%s' to see them all.
--log-res-frmt FORMAT
A format-string selecting Http-Response properties to
log; set to '%s' to see them all.
--log-err-frmt FORMAT
A format-string selecting Http-Error properties to
log; set to '%s' to see them all.
More details about pypi-server update
usage: pypi-server update [-h] [-v] [--log-file FILE] [--log-stream STREAM]
[--log-frmt FORMAT] [--hash-algo HASH_ALGO]
[--backend {auto,simple-dir,cached-dir}] [--version]
[-x] [-d DOWNLOAD_DIRECTORY] [-u]
[--blacklist-file IGNORELIST_FILE]
[package_directory [package_directory ...]]
positional arguments:
package_directory The directory from which to serve packages.
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-v, --verbose Enable verbose logging; repeat for more verbosity.
--log-file FILE Write logging info into this FILE, as well as to
stdout or stderr, if configured.
--log-stream STREAM Log messages to the specified STREAM. Valid values are
stdout, stderr, and none
--log-frmt FORMAT The logging format-string. (see `logging.LogRecord`
class from standard python library)
--hash-algo HASH_ALGO
Any `hashlib` available algorithm to use for
generating fragments on package links. Can be disabled
with one of (0, no, off, false).
--backend {auto,simple-dir,cached-dir}
A backend implementation. Keep the default 'auto' to
automatically determine whether to activate caching or
not
--version show program's version number and exit
-x, --execute Execute the pip commands rather than printing to
stdout
-d DOWNLOAD_DIRECTORY, --download-directory DOWNLOAD_DIRECTORY
Specify a directory where packages updates will be
downloaded. The default behavior is to use the
directory which contains the package being updated.
-u, --allow-unstable Allow updating to unstable versions (alpha, beta, rc,
dev, etc.)
--blacklist-file IGNORELIST_FILE, --ignorelist-file IGNORELIST_FILE
Don't update packages listed in this file (one package
name per line, without versions, '#' comments
honored). This can be useful if you upload private
packages into pypiserver, but also keep a mirror of
public packages that you regularly update. Attempting
to pull an update of a private package from `pypi.org`
might pose a security risk - e.g. a malicious user
might publish a higher version of the private package,
containing arbitrary code.
Always specifying the pypi url on the command line is a bit cumbersome. Since pypiserver redirects pip/easy_install to the pypi.org index if it doesn't have a requested package, it is a good idea to configure them to always use your local pypi index.
For pip command this can be done by setting the environment variable PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL in your .bashr/.profile/.zshrc
export PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL=http://localhost:8080/simple/
or by adding the following lines to ~/.pip/pip.conf
[global]
extra-index-url = http://localhost:8080/simple/
[!NOTE]
If you have installed pypiserver on a remote url without https you will receive an "untrusted" warning from pip, urging you to append the --trusted-host option. You can also include this option permanently in your configuration-files or environment variables.
For easy_install command you may set the following configuration in ~/.pydistutils.cfg
[easy_install]
index_url = http://localhost:8080/simple/
Instead of copying packages directly to the server's folder (i.e. with scp), you may use python tools for the task, e.g. python setup.py upload. In that case, pypiserver is responsible for authenticating the upload-requests.
[!NOTE]
We strongly advise to password-protect your uploads!
It is possible to disable authentication for uploads (e.g. in intranets). To avoid lazy security decisions, read help for -P and -a options.
First make sure you have the passlib module installed (note that passlib>=1.6 is required), which is needed for parsing the Apache htpasswd file specified by the -P, --passwords option (see next steps)
pip install passlib
Create the Apache htpasswd file with at least one user/password pair with this command (you'll be prompted for a password)
htpasswd -sc htpasswd.txt <some_username>
[!TIP]
Read this SO question for running
htpasswdcmd under Windows or if you have bogus passwords that you don't care because they are for an internal service (which is still "bad", from a security perspective...) you may use this public service
[!TIP]
When accessing pypiserver via the api, alternate authentication methods are available via the auther config flag. Any callable returning a boolean can be passed through to the pypiserver config in order to provide custom authentication. For example, to configure pypiserver to authenticate using the python-pam
import pam pypiserver.default_config(auther=pam.authenticate)
Please see Using Ad-hoc authentication providers for more information.
You need to restart the server with the -P option only once (but user/password pairs can later be added or updated on the fly)
./pypi-server run -p 8080 -P htpasswd.txt ~/packages &
On client-side, edit or create a ~/.pypirc file with a similar content:
[distutils]
index-servers =
pypi
local
[pypi]
username:<your_pypi_username>
password:<your_pypi_passwd>
[local]
repository: http://localhost:8080
username: <some_username>
password: <some_passwd>
Then from within the directory of the python-project you wish to upload, issue this command:
python setup.py sdist upload -r local
To avoid storing you passwords on disk, in clear text, you may either:
use the register setuptools's command with the -r option, like that
python setup.py sdist register -r local upload -r local
use twine library, which breaks the procedure in two steps. In addition, it supports signing your files with PGP-Signatures and uploading the generated .asc files to pypiserver::
twine upload -r local --sign -identity user_name ./foo-1.zip
Starting with version 1.2.5, official Docker images will be built for each
push to main, each dev, alpha, or beta release, and each final release.
The most recent full release will always be available under the tag latest,
and the current main branch will always be available under the tag
unstable.
You can always check to see what tags are currently available at our Docker Repo.
To run the most recent release of pypiserver with Docker, simply
docker run pypiserver/pypiserver:latest run
This starts pypiserver serving packages from the /data/packages directory inside the container, listening on the container port 8080.
The container takes all the same arguments as the normal pypi-server executable, with the exception of the internal container port (-p), which will always be 8080.
Of course, just running a container isn't that interesting. To map port 80 on the host to port 8080 on the container::
docker run -p 80:8080 pypiserver/pypiserver:latest run
You can now access your pypiserver at localhost:80 in a web browser.
To serve packages from a directory on the host, e.g. ~/packages
docker run -p 80:8080 -v ~/packages:/data/packages pypiserver/pypiserver:latest run
To authenticate against a local .htpasswd file::
docker run -p 80:8080 -v ~/.htpasswd:/data/.htpasswd pypiserver/pypiserver:latest run -P .htpasswd packages
You can also specify pypiserver to run as a Docker service using a
composefile. An example composefile is provided as
docker-compose.yaml
When trying the methods below, first use the following command to check whether previous versions of pypiserver already exist, and (optionally) uninstall them::
# VERSION-CHECK: Fails if not installed.
pypi-server --version
# UNINSTALL: Invoke again until it fails.
pip uninstall pypiserver
In case the latest version in pypi is a pre-release, you have to use
pip's --pre option. And to update an existing installation combine it
with --ignore-installed
pip install pypiserver --pre -I
You can even install the latest pypiserver directly from github with the following command, assuming you have git installed on your PATH
pip install git+git://github.com/pypiserver/pypiserver.git
The pypi-server command has the update command that searches for updates of available packages. It scans the package directory for available packages and searches on pypi.org for updates. Without further options pypi-server update will just print a list of commands which must be run in order to get the latest version of each package. Output looks like:
$ ./pypi-server update
checking 106 packages for newer version
.........u.e...........e..u.............
.....e..............................e...
..........................
no releases found on pypi for PyXML, Pymacs, mercurial, setuptools
# update raven from 1.4.3 to 1.4.4
pip -q install --no-deps --extra-index-url https://pypi.org/simple/ -d /home/ralf/packages/mirror raven==1.4.4
# update greenlet from 0.3.3 to 0.3.4
pip -q install --no-deps --extra-index-url https://pypi.org/simple/ -d /home/ralf/packages/mirror greenlet==0.3.4
It first prints for each package a single character after checking the available versions on pypi. A dot(.) means the package is up-to-date, 'u' means the package can be updated and 'e' means the list of releases on pypi is empty. After that it shows a pip command line which can be used to update a one package. Either copy and paste that or run pypi-server update -x in order to really execute those commands. You need to have pip installed for that to work however.
Specifying an additional -u option will also allow alpha, beta and release candidates to be downloaded. Without this option these releases won't be considered.
[!IMPORTANT] By default, pypiserver scans the entire packages directory each time an incoming HTTP request occurs. This isn't a problem for a small number of packages, but causes noticeable slow-downs when serving thousands of packages.
If you run into this problem, significant speedups can be gained by enabling pypiserver's directory caching functionality. The only requirement is to install the watchdog package, or it can be installed during pypiserver installation, by specifying the cache extras option::
pip install pypiserver[cache]
Additional speedups can be obtained by using your webserver's builtin
caching functionality. For example, if you are using nginx as a
reverse-proxy as described below in Behind a reverse proxy, you can
easily enable caching. For example, to allow nginx to cache up to
10 gigabytes of data for up to 1 hour::
proxy_cache_path /data/nginx/cache
levels=1:2
keys_zone=pypiserver_cache:10m
max_size=10g
inactive=60m
use_temp_path=off;
server {
# ...
location / {
proxy_cache pypiserver_cache;
proxy_pass http://localhost:8080;
}
}
[!TIP] Using webserver caching is especially helpful if you have high request volume. Using nginx caching, a real-world pypiserver installation was able to easily support over 1000 package downloads/min at peak load.
There are a variety of options for handling the automated starting of pypiserver upon system startup. Two of the most common are systemd and supervisor for linux systems. For windows creating services with scripts isn't an easy task without a third party tool such as NSSM.
systemd is installed by default on most modern Linux systems and as such, it is an excellent option for managing the pypiserver process. An example config file for systemd can be seen below
[Unit]
Description=A minimal PyPI server for use with pip/easy_install.
After=network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
# systemd requires absolute path here too.
PIDFile=/var/run/pypiserver.pid
User=www-data
Group=www-data
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/pypi-server run -p 8080 -a update,download --log-file /var/log/pypiserver.log -P /etc/nginx/.htpasswd /var/www/pypi
ExecStop=/bin/kill -TERM $MAINPID
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
Restart=always
WorkingDirectory=/var/www/pypi
TimeoutStartSec=3
RestartSec=5
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Adjusting the paths and adding this file as pypiserver.service into your systemd/system directory will allow management of the pypiserver process with systemctl, e.g. systemctl start pypiserver.
More useful information about systemd can be found at https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-systemctl-to-manage-systemd-services-and-units
supervisor has the benefit of being a pure python package and as such, it provides excellent cross-platform support for process management. An example configuration file for supervisor is given below
[program:pypi]
command=/home/pypi/pypi-venv/bin/pypi-server run -p 7001 -P /home/pypi/.htpasswd /home/pypi/packages
directory=/home/pypi
user=pypi
autostart=true
autorestart=true
stderr_logfile=/var/log/pypiserver.err.log
stdout_logfile=/var/log/pypiserver.out.log
From there, the process can be managed via supervisord using supervisorctl.
For Windows download NSSM from https://nssm.cc unzip to a
desired location such as Program Files. Decide whether you are going
to use win32 or win64, and add that exe to environment PATH.
Create a start_pypiserver.bat
pypi-server run -p 8080 C:\Path\To\Packages &
[!TIP] Test the batch file by running it first before creating the service. Make sure you can access the server remotely, and install packages. If you can, proceed, if not troubleshoot until you can. This will ensure you know the server works, before adding NSSM into the mix.
From the command prompt
nssm install pypiserver
This command will launch a NSSM gui application
Path: C:\Path\To\start_pypiserver.bat
Startup directory: Auto generates when selecting path
Service name: pypiserver
There are more tabs, but that is the basic setup. If the service needs to be running with a certain login credentials, make sure you enter those credentials in the logon tab.
Start the service
nssm start pypiserver
[!TIP] Other useful commands
nssm --help nssm stop <servicename> nssm restart <servicename> nssm status <servicename>For detailed information please visit https://nssm.cc
The bottle web-server which supports many WSGI-servers, among others, paste, cherrypy, twisted and wsgiref (part of Python); you select them using the --server flag.
You may view all supported WSGI servers using the following interactive code
>>> from pypiserver import bottle
>>> list(bottle.server_names.keys())
['cgi', 'gunicorn', 'cherrypy', 'eventlet', 'tornado', 'geventSocketIO',
'rocket', 'diesel', 'twisted', 'wsgiref', 'fapws3', 'bjoern', 'gevent',
'meinheld', 'auto', 'aiohttp', 'flup', 'gae', 'paste', 'waitress']
If none of the above servers matches your needs, invoke just the pypiserver:app() method which returns the internal WSGI-app WITHOUT starting-up a server - you may then send it to any WSGI server you like. Read also the Utilizing the API section.
Some examples are given below - you may find more details in bottle site.
To use your Apache2 with pypiserver, prefer to utilize mod_wsgi as explained in bottle's documentation.
[!NOTE] If you choose instead to go with mod_proxy, mind that you may bump into problems with the prefix-path (see #155).
Adapt and place the following Apache configuration either into top-level scope,
or inside some <VirtualHost> (contributed by Thomas Waldmann):
WSGIScriptAlias / /yoursite/wsgi/pypiserver-wsgi.py
WSGIDaemonProcess pypisrv user=pypisrv group=pypisrv umask=0007 \
processes=1 threads=5 maximum-requests=500 \
display-name=wsgi-pypisrv inactivity-timeout=300
WSGIProcessGroup pypisrv
WSGIPassAuthorization On # Required for authentication (https://github.com/pypiserver/pypiserver/issues/288)
<Directory /yoursite/wsgi >
Require all granted
</Directory>
or if using older Apache < 2.4, substitute the last part with this::
<Directory /yoursite/wsgi >
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
Then create the /yoursite/cfg/pypiserver.wsgi file and make sure that the user and group of the WSGIDaemonProcess directive (pypisrv:pypisrv in the example) have the read permission on it
import pypiserver
conf = pypiserver.default_config(
root = "/yoursite/packages",
password_file = "/yoursite/htpasswd", )
application = pypiserver.app(**conf)
[!TIP] If you have installed pypiserver in a virtualenv, follow mod_wsgi's instructions and prepend the python code above with the following
import site site.addsitedir('/yoursite/venv/lib/pythonX.X/site-packages')
[!NOTE] For security reasons, notice that the Directory directive grants access to a directory holding the wsgi start-up script, alone; nothing else.
[!NOTE] To enable HTTPS support on Apache, configure the directive that contains the WSGI configuration to use SSL.
The following command uses gunicorn to start pypiserver
gunicorn -w4 'pypiserver:app(root="/home/ralf/packages")'
or when using multiple roots
gunicorn -w4 'pypiserver:app(root=["/home/ralf/packages", "/home/ralf/experimental"])'
paste allows to run multiple WSGI applications under different URL paths. Therefore, it is possible to serve different set of packages on different paths.
The following example paste.ini could be used to serve stable and unstable packages on different paths
[composite:main]
use = egg:Paste#urlmap
/unstable/ = unstable
/ = stable
[app:stable]
use = egg:pypiserver#main
root = ~/stable-packages
[app:unstable]
use = egg:pypiserver#main
root = ~/stable-packages
~/unstable-packages
[server:main]
use = egg:gunicorn#main
host = 0.0.0.0
port = 9000
workers = 5
accesslog = -
[!NOTE] You need to install some more dependencies for this to work, like::
pip install paste pastedeploy gunicorn pypiserverThe server can then start with
gunicorn_paster paste.ini
You can run pypiserver behind a reverse proxy as well.
Extend your nginx configuration
upstream pypi {
server pypiserver.example.com:12345 fail_timeout=0;
}
server {
server_name myproxy.example.com;
location / {
proxy_set_header Host $host:$server_port;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_pass http://pypi;
}
}
As of pypiserver 1.3, you may also use the X-Forwarded-Host header in your
reverse proxy config to enable changing the base URL. For example if you
want to host pypiserver under a particular path on your server
upstream pypi {
server localhost:8000;
}
server {
location /pypi/ {
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host:$server_port/pypi;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_pass http://pypi;
}
}
Using a reverse proxy is the preferred way of getting pypiserver behind
HTTPS. For example, to put pypiserver behind HTTPS on port 443, with
automatic HTTP redirection, using nginx
upstream pypi {
server localhost:8000;
}
server {
listen 80 default_server;
server_name _;
return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name pypiserver.example.com;
ssl_certificate /etc/star.example.com.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /etc/star.example.com.key;
ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
ssl_ciphers HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;
location / {
proxy_set_header Host $host:$server_port;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_pass http://pypi;
}
}
[!TIP] Please see nginx's HTTPS docs for more details.
Getting and keeping your certificates up-to-date can be simplified using, for example, using certbot and letsencrypt.
It is also possible to use Traefik to put pypiserver behind HTTPS on port 443, with automatic HTTP redirection using Docker Compose. Please see the provided docker-compose.yml example for more information.
In order to enable ad-hoc authentication-providers or to use WSGI-servers not supported by bottle out-of-the-box, you needed to launch pypiserver via its API.
The main entry-point for configuring pypiserver is the pypiserver:app() function. This function returns the internal WSGI-app that you my then send to any WSGI-server you like.
To get all pypiserver:app() keywords and their explanations, read the function pypiserver:default_config()
Finally, to fire-up a WSGI-server with the configured app, invoke the bottle:run(app, host, port, server) function. Note that pypiserver ships with its own copy of bottle; to use it, import it like that: from pypiserver import bottle
The auther keyword of pypiserver:app() function maybe set only using the API. This can be any callable that returns a boolean when passed the username and the password for a given request.
For example, to authenticate users based on the /etc/passwd file under Unix, you may delegate such decisions to the python-pam library by following these steps:
Ensure python-pam module is installed
pip install python-pam
Create a python-script along these lines
$ cat > pypiserver-start.py
import pypiserver
from pypiserver import bottle
import pam
app = pypiserver.app(root='./packages', auther=pam.authenticate)
bottle.run(app=app, host='0.0.0.0', port=80, server='auto')
[Ctrl+ D]
Invoke the python-script to start-up pypiserver
python pypiserver-start.py
[!NOTE] The python-pam module, requires read access to /etc/shadow file; you may add the user under which pypiserver runs into the shadow group, with a command like this: sudo usermod -a -G shadow pypy-user.
The MicroPython interpreter for embedded devices can install packages with the module upip.py. The module uses a specialized json-endpoint to retrieve package information. This endpoint is supported by pypiserver.
It can be tested with the UNIX port of micropython
cd micropython
ports/unix/micropython -m tools.upip install -i http://my-server:8080 -p /tmp/mymodules micropython-foobar
Installing packages from the REPL of an embedded device works in this way:
import network
import upip
sta_if = network.WLAN(network.STA_IF)
sta_if.active(True)
sta_if.connect('<your ESSID>', '<your password>')
upip.index_urls = ["http://my-server:8080"]
upip.install("micropython-foobar")
Further information on micropython-packaging can be found here: https://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/reference/packages.html
pypiserver provides a default health endpoint at /health. It always returns 200 Ok if the service is up. Otherwise, it means that the service is not responsive.
In addition, pypiserver allows users to customize the health endpoint. Alphanumeric characters, hyphens, forward slashes and underscores are allowed and the endpoint should not overlap with any existing routes. Valid examples: /healthz, /health/live-1, /api_health, /action/health
Run pypiserver with --health-endpoint argument:
pypi-server run --health-endpoint /action/health
import pypiserver
from pypiserver import bottle
app = pypiserver.app(root="./packages", health_endpoint="/action/health")
bottle.run(app=app, host="0.0.0.0", port=8080, server="auto")
Try curl http://localhost:8080/action/health
To create a copy of the repository, use
git clone https://github.com/pypiserver/pypiserver.git
cd pypiserver
To receive any later changes, in the above folder use:
git pull
[!IMPORTANT] pypiserver does not implement the full API as seen on PyPI. It implements just enough to make easy_install, pip install, and search work.
The following limitations are known:
Please use Github's bugtracker for other bugs you find.
There are lots of other projects, which allow you to run your own PyPI server. If pypiserver doesn't work for you, the following are among the most popular alternatives:
devpi-server: a reliable fast pypi.org caching server, part of the comprehensive github-style pypi index server and packaging meta tool. (version: 2.1.4, access date: 8/3/2015)
Check this SO question: How to roll my own pypi
These projects were once alternatives to pypiserver but are now either unmaintained or archived.
pip2pi a simple cmd-line tool that builds a PyPI-compatible local folder from pip requirements
flask-pypi-proxy A proxy for PyPI that also enables uploading custom packages.
Though not direct alternatives for pypiserver's use as an index server, the following is a list of related software projects that you may want to familiarize with:
pypi-uploader: A command-line utility to upload packages to your pypiserver from pypi without having to store them locally first.
twine: A command-line utility for interacting with PyPI or pypiserver.
warehouse: the software that powers PyPI itself. It is not generally intended to be run by end-users.
pypiserver contains a copy of bottle which is available under the MIT license, and the remaining part is distributed under the zlib/libpng license. See the LICENSE.txt file.
FAQs
A minimal PyPI server for use with pip/easy_install.
We found that pypiserver demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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