CGIHTTPServer howto?

[Chui Tey]

Thanks. I had a look through the code, how did you manage to overcome the
bit which required Unix pwd() function. Did you rehack CGIHTTPServer or
created a new class which descended from it which does not require the Unix
system functions?

Regarsds

Chui


Calvin Dodge <caldodge at ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:37D44115.EA834C at ix.netcom.com...
> Chui Tey wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm new to python and playing around with CGIHTTPServer. Executed test()
and
> > got an instant http server (wow!). Next, I tried to execute a test cgi
> > script but couldn't get it to run.
> >
> > code 403 : CGI script is not executable ('/cgi-bin/cgitest.py')
> >
> > I'm running Win95, any pointers?
> >
> > #! 'C:\\PROGRAM FILES\\CHUITEY\\BIN\\PYTHON.EXE'
>
> Unfortunately, Windows (any version) does not recognize the above line
> as anything special (COMMAND.COM is far less sophisticated than _any_
> UNIX shell).
>
> A batch file which calls python.exe with a python script filename as an
> argument _might_ work, and it might not. I had problems while playing
> with it, anyway.
>
> I had enough trouble with this that I cobbled together a simple server
> which is descended from CGIServer - and all it does is import the python
> file in question, then execute it. It's kinda ugly, but it works for me.
>
> Calvin
>
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