Your program should run on port 8000 (port 80, which is the usual for web applications, will be blocked by your firewall). Your program should take a path as a parameter (and fail with a usage message if there is no parameter). That path will be the path that your web server will use to serve files. For example – let’s say that the path is /home/mphipps. If I try to access localhost:8000/secret/data. html, your web server will look at: /home/mphipps/secret and try to serve data. html.