I have a list of folders which all contain hugo code for web servers in Windows 7.
Usually I launch them by going into each folder and running the below cmd in cmd prompt:
hugo server -D
What occurs next is, the command outputs messages to the shell, either an error or the local webserver address:
Running in Fast Render Mode. For full rebuilds on change: hugo server --disableFastRender
Web Server is available at http://localhost:1313/ (bind address 127.0.0.1)
Press Ctrl+C to stop
Now I want to launch multiple webservers, which I usually manually do by going into each folder and open cmd prmpt and run the above command.
so I am trying to automate the process as follows:
def launch_sites(site_dir):
"""
testing launching multiple Hugo sites
site_dir : root_dir of sites
"""
sites = [os.path.join(site_dir, site)
for site in os.listdir(site_dir)]
outputs = [] # to get stdout so I can find local web address
for site in sites:
if "dummy" in site and os.path.isdir(site):
os.chdir(site)
out =subprocess.Popen(f"hugo server -D", stdout = subprocess.PIPE)
print(out.stdout.read())
outputs.append(out.stdout)
else:
continue
return outputs
However with the above code, only the first site is launched, and a black screen with the title ("Hugo.exe") pops out. I have to manually close the this black screen, to go through the next iteration in the loop.
Ideally I want to have multiple black boxes (.exes) pop out, so that I know multiple webservers are all running.
How can I solve this problem? Thank you.
A different attempt:
Below you will see two different attempts to try to load multiple instances. However I am only able to get the stdout of the first instance. ONLY Once I close the black box (hugo.exe), I get the stdout of the second instance. If this was done in a non-programming way, when I run the command in different cmd prompts I am able to get an output message right away.
#launch sites
import subprocess
import os
import sys
import threading
import time
def cmd(site):
os.chdir(site)
out =subprocess.Popen("hugo server -D", stdout = subprocess.PIPE)
print('communicate',out.communicate()[0])
def cmd(site):
os.chdir(site)
out =subprocess.Popen(['hugo', 'server', '-D'], stdout = subprocess.PIPE)
print('communicate',out.communicate()[0])
if __name__ == "__main__":
site_dir = r"D:\HUGO DUMMY SITES"
sites = [os.path.join(site_dir, site) for site in os.listdir(site_dir)]
for site in sites:
if "dummy" in site and os.path.isdir(site):
cmd(site)
