stupid Win-CGI getting started question

[bill_seitz at my-dejanews.com]

In article <8DA86302Bduncanrcpcouk at news.rmplc.co.uk>,
  Duncan Booth <duncan at rcp.co.uk> wrote:
> seitz at mail.medscape.com wrote in <7f0f0h$pfb$1 at nnrp1.dejanews.com>:
>
> >Installed the basic Python stuff. I can run the interpreter. But not clear on
> >getting it configured properly to talk CGI with my WinNT Netscape Enterprise
> >server. I set a CGI folder path properly, but I get a nasty error message.
> >But it's not a file-not-found, so I know it's finding the .py file. So I'm
> >guessing it's not finding the executable.

> I tried all sorts of configuration changes to get it to run .py files
directly,
> and eventually gave it up as a bad job (mostly because I didn't want to risk
> breaking the server).
>
> The way I get CGI scripts to run with Netscape Enterprise server on NT is to
> put them in .cmd files instead of .py files.

So nobody can run .py files as CGI?

Is this a known problem? What's its scope? Only Netscape/NT? What about IIS?
What about Netscape/Solaris?

I'm trying to keep my code generic enough that it can be moved to other
platforms/servers down the road (which is why I haven't been looking at nsapy
or Medusa or ZopeHTTP...), so I don't want to work around a problem now and
just have it hit me again later. I'd like to understand the nature of the
problem enough to evaluate alternative solutions.

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