Difficulty configuring web server for Python

Mon Aug 16 11:02:58 EDT 1999

Do you think "home" has the same meaning for the server ?
#!/usr/home/campusch/usr/local/bin/python

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--Darrell
<mbf2y at my-deja.com> wrote in message news:7p9855$5tg$1 at nnrp1.deja.com...
> My situation: I just obtained a "virtual web server" account at a web
> hosting place, where I have full access to UNIX on the box and can
> modify my apache config files, etc.  They advertise that they support
> Perl, C, and C++ for CGI scripting.  Needless to say, first thing I did
> when I got the account was to build a copy of Python.  Python appears to
> work fine.
>
> I built a simple CGI script and kept getting error 500, so I simplified
> to the below script:
>
> #!/usr/home/campusch/usr/local/bin/python
>
>
> print "Content-type: text/html"
> print
> print "<HTML><BODY><H1>Hello World!</H1></BODY></HTML>"
> print
>
>
> 1) Python is installed in /usr/home/..../python
> 2) running "python simp.py" from the command prompt gives me the
> expected result.
> 3) running "./simp.py" from that directory runs the program just fine.
> 4) python itself has been chmod ugo+x so the web server process should
> be able to run it.
> 5) This script has been chmod ugo+x so the web server process should be
> able to run it.
> 6) The script is in the correct directory; I installed a "supported"
> perl script in this directory and got it to work no problem.
>
> This is what gets written to the server log when I try to run my script:
>
> [Sun Aug 15 21:59:31 1999] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec of
> /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/simp.py failed
> [Sun Aug 15 21:59:31 1999] [error] Premature end of script headers:
> /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/simp.py
>
> While the "no such file or directory" threw me, this is not a file not
> found error... when I tried to run a script that really wasn't there, I
> got:
>
> [Sun Aug 15 22:10:18 1999] [error] script not found or unable to stat:
> /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/foo.py
>
> I noticed in my srm.conf file that they had the line
> AddType application/x-httpd-cgi .cgi
>
> in there, so I renamed the .py file to .cgi.  No help at all.
>
> As for the OS I'm running, here's what python prints on the first line
> when I run it:
>
> Python 1.5.2 (#3, Aug 15 1999, 19:04:09)  [GCC 2.7.2.1] on bsdos3
>
> My first recourse (after spending 3 hours trying to chase this down) was
> to contact tech support; they agreed with me that Python is a robust
> scripting language, but in order to make sure that they have time to
> handle all their clients' requests for supported software, they have had
> to tighten their policy and they aren't allowed to even help me a teensy
> bit when I'm using unsupported software.
>
> Frustrating as heck.  Anyway, if anyone here has any suggestions as what
> to try next, I would appreciate it.  I can't recompile apache but I can
> change the config files.  I can however run a script to find out the
> version of Apache I'm using, and here it is:
>
> Server version: Apache/1.3.1.1 SSL/1.15 PHP/3.0.3
> Server built:   Jun  3 1999 11:15:00
> Standalone Configuration
>
> I don't want to have to learn perl and I really don't want to do my
> scripting in C++.  So if anyone here has any suggestions, I'd greatly
> appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> -Fred
>
>
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> Michael "Fred" Fredericks
> PhD Student, Computer Science
> University of Maryland College Park
> fred.at.cs.dot.umd.dot.edu  ---- note I never check my dejanews mail.
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