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Shiner_Man
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 Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2005 11:27 pm Post subject: Apache and Python causing me to fall of the wagon. |
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Well I dont' get it. One of my coworkers setup apache on a windows machine, installed ActivePython, and made this awesome python script. Now I came home to get it going on my gentoo server and the thing doesn't work. I can't even get the helloworld.py to go:
| Code: | #!/usr/bin/env python
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
print "Hello World!" |
When I access this file using the url www.mydomain.com/helloworld.py I get a 403 forbidden. I have no clue whats going on here.
Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi your my only hope.
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justanothergentoofanatic
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Hrm...is the script stored in the cgi-bin directory? Is it world readable and executable? Are you able to execute the other sample scripts in cgi-bin?
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Shiner_Man
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Well, cgi-bin is in /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin. All my web directories are in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/. All the files are executable and I changed the owners to nobody and apache, neither worked. From what I've gathered people feel mod_python is a nightmare.
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j-m
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| Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:53 am Post subject: |
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| Shiner_Man wrote: | | Well, cgi-bin is in /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin. All my web directories are in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/. All the files are executable and I changed the owners to nobody and apache, neither worked. From what I've gathered people feel mod_python is a nightmare. |
mod_python worked for me pretty much out of the box - for hello world 
I did not try anything else yet, but these two lines should do for a basic test.
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AddHandler mod_python .py
PythonHandler test
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$ less test.py
from mod_python import apache
def handler(req):
req.write("Hello World!")
return apache.OK
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Shiner_Man
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This confuses me. So everytime you write a new .py application you have to add a seperate handler for it in apache's configuration files?
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xy77
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 8:30 am Post subject: |
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| Shiner_Man wrote: | | Well, cgi-bin is in /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin. All my web directories are in /var/www/localhost/htdocs/. All the files are executable and I changed the owners to nobody and apache, neither worked. From what I've gathered people feel mod_python is a nightmare. |
If you emerged mod_python, you should be able to put a script test.cgi
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#!/usr/bin/python
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
print "Hello World!"
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in /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/ , change permissions to executable by all (or set group apache and permission to g+x) and you should be able to view it by calling http://localhost/cgi-bin/test.cgi from your browser.
Alternatively try /var/www/localhost/htdocs/cgi-bin - one never knows. 
If this works, you still can try to figure out, how to make .py extensions work.
Personally I put it in ~/public_html/cgi-bin/ so my web stuff gets backuped, when I backup my home dir.
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iulica
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Shiner_Man wrote: | | This confuses me. So everytime you write a new .py application you have to add a seperate handler for it in apache's configuration files? |
I want to know this too. Can anyone answer ? I find it also confusing. |
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