diff --git a/esp8266/data/tags.json b/esp8266/data/tags.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..5aebc12c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/esp8266/data/tags.json
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+{
+    "WEB_ADDRESS":"localhost",
+    "PAGE_TITLE":"Testing things..."
+}
diff --git a/tools/server.py b/tools/server.py
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index 00000000..eeb970ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/server.py
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+import SimpleHTTPServer, SocketServer
+import sys
+import os
+import json
+import re
+
+#Replace this with a different path if you need to...
+base_path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(),"..","esp8266","data")
+
+class MyHandler(SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
+    def do_GET(self):
+        is_tpl, s = self.process_path(self.path)
+        if is_tpl:
+            self.send_response(301)
+            self.send_header("Content-type", "text/html")
+            self.end_headers()
+
+            data = self.process_tpl(s)
+            self.wfile.write(data)
+            self.wfile.close()
+            return
+        SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.do_GET(self)
+
+    def process_path(self,s):
+        #A template link is all caps and is associated to a lower().tpl file in base_path
+        if s == "/":
+            return True,"home.tpl"
+
+        ret = False,""
+        s = s.replace("/","")
+        if s.endswith(".tpl"):
+           return True,s
+
+        s = s.lower()+".tpl"
+
+        #these do not exactly match, so let's make them!
+        s = s.replace("configsta","config_sta") 
+        s = s.replace("configap","config_ap") 
+        s = s.replace("configsys","system") 
+
+        if os.path.exists(os.path.join(base_path,s)):
+            ret = True,s
+
+        return ret
+
+    def process_tpl(self,fn):
+        p = re.compile('\$(.*?)\$')
+        if fn.startswith("/") or fn.startswith("\\"):
+            fn = fn[1:]
+
+        fn = os.path.join(base_path,fn)
+        data = open(fn).read()
+
+        fn_json = os.path.join(base_path,"tags.json")
+        if os.path.exists(fn_json):
+            json_dic = json.loads(open(fn_json).read())
+        else:
+            json_dic = {}
+
+        tags = p.findall(data)
+        i = 0
+        n_tags = len(tags)
+        while i < n_tags:
+            dd = self.process_tag(data,tags[i],json_dic)
+            if dd != data:
+                data = dd
+                tags = p.findall(data)
+                n_tags = len(tags)
+            else:
+                i = i+1
+        return data
+
+    def process_tag(self, data, tag, json_dic={}):
+        print "  processing $%s$" % tag
+        if tag in json_dic.keys():
+            data = data.replace("$"+tag+"$",json_dic[tag])
+        elif tag.startswith("INCLUDE[") and tag.endswith("]"):
+            fn = tag[8:-1]
+            fn = os.path.join(base_path,fn)
+            d = open(fn).read()
+            p0 = data.find("$"+tag)
+            p1 = data.find("]",p0)+2
+            data = data[:p0]+d+data[p1:]
+
+        return data
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    print "="*60
+    print "Serving files from:"
+    print base_path
+    os.chdir(base_path)
+    print "="*60
+    handler = MyHandler
+    server = SocketServer.TCPServer(("",8080), handler)
+    server.serve_forever()
+