PIL, Python and CGI

[Kragen Sitaker]

Sascha Ferley <Sascha.Ferley at infineon.net> writes:
> Basically if i run the python program in shell mode, it works fine. But
> when i run it via cgi mode it screws up horobly.
> Looking at the error-log i see just following:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> ...
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 39,
> in __geta
> ttr__
>     raise ImportError, "The _imaging C module is not installed"
> ImportError: The _imaging C module is not installed
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?

Perhaps your CGI Python is not your shell Python, and one of them has
PIL properly installed, while the other one doesn't.