Apache & Python 500 Error

[Peter van Kampen]

On 2005-02-02, Christian <stonis at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i have an apache 1.3 server with python on debian. Python works fine but 
>   the scripts wont´t work.
>
> This easy script i want to do on apache:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import os
> os.getcwd()
>
> in apache config i have done this:
>
><Directory /var/www/python>
>      AddHandler python-program .py
>      PythonHandler python
>      Order allow,deny
>      Allow from all
>      #PythonDebug On
></Directory>
>
> the script is in this directory /var/www/python
>
> but i get an 500 error everytime, with "every" script 

You're confusing mod_python and cgi. And you're cgi isn't written
properly...

Try this to enable cgi for python files:

<Directory /var/www/python>
    Options +ExecCGI
    AddHandler cgi-script py
</Directory>

Don't forget to restart apache.

A proper cgi-file outputs a header with at least the content-type. A
header is followed by an empty line.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os

print "Content-type: text/html"
print
print os.getcwd()

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Peter van Kampen
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