Static sites often require a CORS- and AJAX-supporting server to function properly, so it's helpful to run one locally. This is the script I've put together for doing that:

# This was created based on info from various online instructions sites.
# First you need to create a cert so that SSL will work.
# Generate server.pem with the following command:
#    openssl req -new -x509 -keyout server.pem -out server.pem -days 365 -nodes
# run as follows:
#    python pyserve.py
# in the folder where the web materials are.
# Then in your browser, visit:
#    https://localhost:4443

import http.server
import ssl

# Not that we're allowing CORS here, because we need to run local sites which 
# use remote resources.
class CORSRequestHandler(http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
    def end_headers(self):
        self.send_header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*')
        self.send_header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'GET')
        self.send_header('Cache-Control', 'no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate')
        return super(CORSRequestHandler, self).end_headers()

# If you don't need remote resources, just use this:
#httpd = http.server.HTTPServer(('localhost', 4443), http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler)
httpd = http.server.HTTPServer(('localhost', 4443), CORSRequestHandler)
httpd.socket = ssl.wrap_socket (httpd.socket, certfile='/home/mholmes/WorkData/scripts/pyserve/server.pem', server_side=True)
httpd.serve_forever()

I usually add an alias link in my .bashrc file like this:

alias pyserve='python ~/WorkData/scripts/pyserve/pyserve.py'

so I can just run "pyserve" in the folder where the static site is.