Small, Local Web/CGI Server Advice

[dsavitsk]

i agree w/ the other poster that Medusa is the better choice, but in a pinch
IIS will work with python cgi and or python asp pages giving you a few
options.

-d


"Sloth" <mt_horeb at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I'm attempting to create my first major Python app for a company that
> wants to run Web (HTML) pages and CGI scripts on their salespeople's
> laptop computers.  Basically, the salesperson would run a local Web
> server that allows for basic CGI scripts to be run.  The customer is
> pushing hard that they want to use their Web browser as the client and
> to have a local server serving CGI/HTML that also is running on that
> laptop (that wouldn't have been my first choice, but those are the
> constraints I'm working with...)
>
> I've tried to use CGIHTTPServer, but I am having problems getting that
> to work on Windows ME/98 (using ActiveState Python 2.1 - HTML is
> served just fine, but CGIs cause EXPLORER to crash).  Any advice on a
> small, preferably Python based Web server that I can run that will
> support CGI?  I'd love to use something like Medusa if I could figure
> out how to get it to support CGIs.  I really don't want to use a
> 'large' server like Apache, since I'm really just trying to run a
> lightweight server.
>
> Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated!!!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeremy.