stupid Win-CGI getting started question

[bill_seitz at my-dejanews.com]

In article <8DA9637FEduncanrcpcouk at news.rmplc.co.uk>,
  Duncan Booth <duncan at rcp.co.uk> wrote:

> I didn't say it was impossible to run .py files as CGI, simply that I had
> problems getting it to work. Since my number one priority was not to take
> the web server off-line at all, there were limits to how far I could play
> around with it. I'm sure there must be some way to get it to work, but I
> got enough for my purposes.

Gotcha.

I did some more playing around. No success, but here's what I did/found: When
I try to call a .py file I get the "This server has encountered an internal
error which prevents it from fulfilling your request" message. The NES error
log shows: [15/Apr/1999:10:35:53] failure: for host 192.246.193.43 trying to
GET /pcgi/dntest.py, send-cgi reports: could not send new process (File Not
Found Error) [15/Apr/1999:10:35:53] failure: cgi_send:cgi_start_exec
d:\program files\python\lib\dntest.py failed

If I rename the .py file to .cmd and call it with that name, it works fine.

I'm defining a /pcgi/ path to point to the location of the python files, so
I'm not counting on the suffix to mean anything. All the various CGI folders
get mapped to object name="cgi", but again, since suffix is irrelevant, that
shouldn't be the problem.

I went into mime.types and added the py extension to the cgi reference (note
that cmd is not in that extension list). Still get an error, but the log
changes to [15/Apr/1999:10:52:57] failure: for host 192.246.193.43 trying to
GET /pcgi/dntest.py, send-cgi reports: could not send new process (Error
Number is unknown) [15/Apr/1999:10:52:57] failure: cgi_send:cgi_start_exec
d:\program files\python\lib\dntest.py failed

Does this suggest any clues? I've asked a friend who doesn't know Python but
knows Netscape pretty well. Will report back if he has any suggestions.


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