from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import os

file_name = "/var/www/html/index.html"

#if the file doesn't exist, we should copy the template to the folder
if not os.path.exists(file_name):
    template_name = "index.html" 
    shutil.copy(template_name, file_name)
    print("The index file was not available, so we've restored it from template.")

# Generate a fortune!
fortune = os.popen("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay").read()

# Write the fortune to the webpage!
soup = None

with open(file_name, "r") as the_file:
    soup = BeautifulSoup(the_file, features="html.parser")
    
    fortune_holder = soup.find(id="fortune-container")

    fortune_holder.string = fortune

with open(file_name, "w") as the_file:
    the_file.write(str(soup))

print("The emergency fortune system has set the fortune to {}".format(fortune))