pypiserver - minimal PyPI server for use with pip/easy_install
Version: | 1.5.1 |
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Date: | 2022-10-18 |
Source: | https://github.com/pypiserver/pypiserver |
PyPI: | https://pypi.org/project/pypiserver/ |
Tests: | https://github.com/pypiserver/pypiserver/actions |
Maintainers: | Kostis Anagnostopoulos <ankostis@gmail.com>,
Matthew Planchard <mplanchard@gmail.com>,
Dmitrii Orlov <dmtree.dev@yahoo.com>,
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License: | zlib/libpng + MIT |
Community: | https://pypiserver.zulipchat.com |
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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 - minimal PyPI server for use with pip/easy_install
- Quickstart: Installation and Usage
- Client-Side Configurations
- Uploading Packages Remotely
- Using the Docker Image
- Alternative Installation Methods
- Recipes
- Sources
- Known Limitations
- Similar Projects
- Related Software
- Licensing
Quickstart: Installation and Usage
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.
See also Alternative Installation methods.
Copy some packages into your
~/packages
folder and then get yourpypiserver
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.
See also Client-side configurations for avoiding tedious typing.
Enter
pypi-server -h
in the cmd-line to print a detailed usage message: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. options: -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
More details about pypi-server run
Enter pypi-server run -h
in the cmd-line to print a detailed usage
message about starting the server:
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
Enter pypi-server update -h
in the cmd-line to print a detailed usage
message about updating the managed packages:
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.
Client-Side Configurations
Always specifying the 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.
Configuring pip
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.
Configuring easy_install
For easy_install
command you may set the following configuration in
~/.pydistutils.cfg
:
[easy_install] index_url = http://localhost:8080/simple/
Uploading Packages Remotely
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-protected 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.
Apache-Like Authentication (htpasswd
)
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 htpasswd cmd 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 &
Upload with setuptools
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
Upload with twine
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
Using the Docker Image
Starting with version 1.2.5, official Docker images will be built for each
push to master, 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 master 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.
Alternative Installation Methods
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
Installing the Very Latest Version
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
Recipes
Managing the Package Directory
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.
Serving Thousands of Packages
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; } }
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.
Managing Automated Startup
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.
Running As a systemd
Service
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
Launching through supervisor
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
.
Running As a service with NSSM
(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 &
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
Other useful commands:
nssm --help nssm stop <servicename> nssm restart <servicename> nssm status <servicename>
For detailed information please visit https://nssm.cc
Using a Different WSGI Server
The
bottle
web-server which supports many WSGI-servers, among others,paste
,cherrypy
,twisted
andwsgiref
(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.
Apache (mod_wsgi
)
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 theuser
andgroup
of theWSGIDaemonProcess
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, followmod_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.
gunicorn
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
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 pypiserver
The server can then start with:
gunicorn_paster paste.ini
Behind a Reverse Proxy
You can run pypiserver
behind a reverse proxy as well.
Nginx
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 $remote_addr; proxy_pass http://pypi; } }
Supporting HTTPS
Using a reverse proxy is the preferred way of getting pypiserver behind HTTPS. For example, to put pypiserver behind HTTPS on port 443, with automatic HTTP redirection, using nginx:
upstream pypi { server localhost:8000; } server { listen 80 default_server; server_name _; return 301 https://$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; } }
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.
Traefik
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.
Utilizing the API
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 thatpypiserver
ships with it is own copy of bottle; to use it, import it like that:from pypiserver import bottle
Using Ad-Hoc Authentication Providers
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
.
Use with MicroPython
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
Custom Health Check Endpoint
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
Configure a custom health endpoint by CLI arguments
Run pypiserver with --health-endpoint
argument:
pypi-server run --health-endpoint /action/health
Configure a custom health endpoint by script
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
Sources
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
Known Limitations
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:
- Command
pypi -U
that compares uploaded packages with pypi to see if they are outdated, does not respect a http-proxy environment variable (see #19). - It accepts documentation uploads but does not save them to disk (see #47 for a discussion)
- It does not handle misspelled packages as pypi-repo does,
therefore it is suggested to use it with
--extra-index-url
instead of--index-url
(see #38).
Please use Github's bugtracker for other bugs you find.
Similar Projects
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
Unmaintained or archived
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 also uploading custom packages.
Related Software
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.
Licensing
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.