Python - how to make it work

[ntga862]

I am trying to run a python script with CGI but have been unsucesful.
Is there anything I have to do from the cpanel to activate the .py files to run from the directory /cgi-bin/ ?

This is the simple test program I am trying to run:

#!/usr/bin/python2.2
# Tell the browser how to render the text
print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\n"
print "Hello, Python!" # print a test string

I also have tried as the first line:
#!/usr/bin/python1.5 and #!/usr/bin/python

and cannot make this simple script run.

Other scripts like .pl files run with no problem from /cgi-bin/

Python is installed, no question about it. I tested it from a ssh session.


I will appreciate your help.

[jason]

First and foremost, what permissions level (chmod) do you have the script set to? Scripts need to be set to 755 in order for the server to be able to run them. When you upload the script by FTP it is probably being set to 644 which is not executable.

Anything that you put in a cgi-bin directory should be run as an executable, so I doubt the .py extension is the problem. Just for ha ha's, though, try changing it to .cgi if the permissions are not the problem. Since the serveer is unix (linux) based, file extensions don't matter, but I know that Apache is configured try and execuate all .cgi files, regardless of whehter they're in a cgi-bin directory or not.

Hope this helps.

--Jason

[Vin DSL]

Your script works fine on 'my' server...

http://www.lenon.com/cgi-bin/hello_python.py

Have you tried SnakeCharmer? It shows your Python environment!

http://snakefarm.org/