CGI vs mod_python

[John Nagle]

ssteinerX at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> On Nov 9, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Victor Subervi wrote:
> 
>> Yes, obviously. But if CGI is enabled, it should work anyway, should 
>> it not?
> 
> Depends on what "CGI is enabled" means.
> 
> Usually, web servers are not set to just handle cgi scripts from 
> anywhere, but only from specific file system locations.  Otherwise, an 
> an anonymous upload could be executed as CGI and wreak havoc.

     If it won't work as a CGI program, which is relatively straightforward,
it probably won't work at all.

     First, write some trivial CGI program in Python and make sure the
environment works - Python loads, the Python program loads, and you
can get a response back.

     Bear in mind that most hosting services don't make much of an attempt
to support Python. Expect important libraries to be missing or obsolete.

					John Nagle