learning to setup a simple web server

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As the previous poster said, use flask or django.

However search on google for configuring iOS with python (assuming windows) to use the cgi from the book.
I dont have a link but I think there was a setup tutorial in one of the first links.
As the previous poster said though, things seem to have moved on, and initial usage of flask is pretty quick to set up. There is a tutorial section in these forums too.