pypiserver

Last Updated: 4/2/2025

To make it easier to re-create in the future it might not be a bad idea to leave myself a note.

The goal here is to discuss how to create a pypi server to create a place to host python wheels and make it easier to install. You might ask why would you need to do this. Well #1 Python pips ability to use a proxy can be a bit suspect at times. #2 You might be in a non-permissive environment that does not have outside access.

General Theory:

The theory would be to create a folder under /opt named /packages. Inside of packages you might create a directory named simple

.
└── packages
    └── simple
        ├── aiohttp
        │   ├── aiohttp-3.8.4-cp310-cp310-win32.whl
        │   ├── aiohttp-3.8.4-cp310-cp310-win_amd64.whl

INSTALLING PYPISERVER

To install the pypiserver

pip install pypiserver

To install as a service

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/systemd/system/pypiserver.service
[Unit]
    After=network.target

 [Service]
    Type=simple
    ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/pypi-server run -p 8080 /opt/packages
    WorkingDirectory=/opt/packages
    TimeoutStartSec=3

[Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target
EOF

Common commands to check on.

systemctl restart pyserver

Hint:

To use this a secure service, you might want to install NGINX and use it as a proxy that receives traffic on port 8080 and then redirects the request internally over to port 8090 Please see additional post on how to use NGINX as HTTPS redirect.