[Tutor] Python, CGI and CSS

[Steve Willoughby]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:22:47PM -0600, Alex Krycek wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've looked all over the internet but have not found an answer to my
> question. How do I apply an external stylesheet to the XHTML in a Python
> script? I tried to include the standard "<link rel='stylesheet'
> type='text/css' href='style1.css' />"" in with the rest of the printed
> XHTML. But that didn't work. I changed the href attribute to "/style1.css",
> then to "../style1.css" and finally to "http://localhost/cgi-bin/style1.css",
> all failed attempts. Just so you know, both sets of permissions for these
> two files have been set to 755. I tried other cgi scripts (still residing in
> the cgi-bin) and they did work. I checked the error log, and this is what
> I'm getting: (2)No such file or directory.
> 
> When I took both files out of my cgi-bin, as a test, the CSS rules were
> implemented. I'm not sure why it stops working when located in the
> cgi-bin folder.

It's likely your web server is set up to *execute* (not deliver as text) 
files in your cgi-bin directory.


> 
> Thanks!

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