[Tutor] Simple CGI script and Apache configuration

Sun Feb 22 19:36:09 CET 2009

Hello all,

I'll try to give as much detail as I can, but this is a somewhat vague problem. I have a very simple script that I would like to implement as a CGI script, just so I can hit a URL and get some output. However, after following a number of tutorials, I am still seeing some very odd results. I am almost sure it's in my Apache configuration, but I figured a few people on this list would likely know what the minimal related Apache config should be. (The Apache docs are pretty daunting...)

Local version wise, I am on Ubuntu 8.10, with Apache 2.2.9 and Python 2.5.2. I have libapache2-mod-python installed. Apache config is out of the box, along with:

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin/"

In /var/www/cgi-bin, I have hello.py:

#!/usr/bin/python
import cgitb
cgitb.enable()

print "Content-type: text/html"
print
print "<html>"
print "<center>Hello!</center>"
print "</html>"

Reload, hit http://localhost/cgi-bin/hello.py in a browser, I get centered text just fine. Now I want to do this same process on my remote webserver. On there, I am on Ubuntu 7.10, with Apache 2.2.4 and Python 2.5.1. I add:

ScriptAlias /python/ "/var/www/samuelhuckins.com/python"

Reload, hit http://samuelhuckins.com/python/hello.py, and I get a 404? The perms and ownership on the file is the same as in other directories. Do I need to add some sort of handler, with mod_python.publisher? I think I am just missing one of the basics of this whole process.

Thanks for any assistance,
Sam

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