Twisted provides a plugin for the twistd application runner, out of the box. It can be run by running twistd web from the command line.
twistd has a few important global options – the most useful of which is -n (or --nodaemon). This prevents twistd from forking to the background, and is handy for when you are testing or playing around with its functionality.
To set the port that twistd web will listen on, specify the --port argument to twistd web with an endpoint description string understandable by serverFromString . For example, --port tcp:8080 will make it listen on TCP port 8080.
To serve static files, specify the --path argument with the path that you wish to serve static files from. As an example, twistd -n web --port tcp:8080 --path /tmp will serve your /tmp directory on port 8080.
WSGI applications can be served by using the --wsgi argument with the fully qualified Python name of the WSGI application you wish to serve.