Python & cgi on win98--tinyweb problems, etc

[Chris Stromberger]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:46:10 -0500, "Steve Holden"
<sholden at holdenweb.com> wrote:

>"Chris Stromberger" <bit_bucket5 at hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:p6p8vtk41q0dsf46tv00d60t2vuom3vmvd at 4ax.com...
>> I'm looking for a solution to this:
>> I want to run a personal web server to run python cgi scripts that
>> interact with a mysql database on a windows 98 pc that's connected to
>> the internet via cable modem.  I would rather avoid all security
>> issues and only allow the web server to serve pages to localhost--this
>> setup will be for a single user of the pc, no remote users, etc.  Very
>> simple.  So, I don't need a fancy web server.  Any advice?
>>
>> I have tried apache and it works fine, of course, but I think it's too
>> heavyweight for what I want here.
>>
>> I found tinyweb on the internet, and it looks promising, but I can't
>> get it to run a python cgi script.  It will run a test windows
>> executable that I placed in the cgi-bin directory, so it's some
>> problem specific to python and tinyweb.  Any clues?  The tinyweb
>> documentation is pretty minimal.
>>
>> Any other recommendations for small simple web servers for this
>> project?
>>
>Run, do not walk, to www.xitami.com, and download the freeware load.
>
>It runs well, with a very small footprint, and besides allowing CGI
>scripting and having web-based administration it also lets you build
>long-running web processes in Python! Naturally you can specify which
>interfaces you want to use to serve web content (and naturally you will want
>to limit yourself to 127.0.0.1). I ditched PWS a year ago and have never
>looked back.
>
>regards
> Steve

I'll check it out.  Could you expound a bit on your statement that "it
also lets you build long-running web processes in Python"?  What does
that imply?

Thanks for the suggestion.

-Chris