trying again: CgiHttpServer workalike for Win/NT and Win/98?

[Chuck Esterbrook]

A few weeks ago, I was in the exact situation that Alex was is in.

I found Medusa difficult to get along with for lack of documentation. And
CGIHTTPServer difficult because I'm using Windows 95.

I ended up downloading Apache (http://www.apache.org) and I'm quite happy with it.
It supports having "#!python" in your CGI scripts and everything works fine.

Regardless of what you use to serve your HTTP, I recommend you check out this
article. I found it quite useful and have cooked up my own version of the wrapper
script with better error reporting:

 http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/1998/02/kuchling/

My wrapper script also assumes a ".py" extension for the target script which makes
my URLs a bit cleaner.

-Chuck


Aahz Maruch wrote:

> In article <837o38$b65$1 at serv1.iunet.it>,
> Alex Martelli <alex at magenta.com> wrote:
> >
> >To test some CGI scripts with minimal hassle, I would like to
> >be able to run CgiHttpServer.py, or something similar to it,
> >on some Windows/NT and Windows/98 PCs.  Unfortunately
> >for this purpose, it seems that CgiHttpServer.py itself is oriented
> >to Unix (e.g., it wants to fork to run the script).
>
> The /F-bot gave you an answer, but it needs a bit of fleshing: unless
> you specifically need to run CGI scripts, you may be better off running
> them as Python modules underneath Medusa (which would take some
> rewriting on your part); this would make OSes completely transparent.
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