Newbie want Python CGI on Mac OS X10.2

Mel Bohince melbohince at attbi.com
Thu Oct 31 15:46:40 EST 2002


Turns out that I didn't have my editor (BBEdit) saving the files with Unix
return characters. So if I did '%less test.py' I would see a bunch of ^M's.

Also the first line #!/usr/bin/python works.

> I have a problem (many really), didn't really get too far, hope someone can
> help. Maybe you can reminisce when your problems were this easy.
> 
> I got Apache/1.3.26 to run the http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/test-cgi that comes
> preinstalled. But when I put a very simple python script:
> 
> #!/usr/lib/python
> 
> print """Content-type: text/html
> 
> hello world"""
> 
> and I point to http://127.0.0.1/cgi-bin/simple.py the browser replies with
> an "Internal Server Error".
> 
> Any clues for the clueless?
> 
> -:  -:  -:  -: -:  -:  -:  -:    \|/
> -:  -:  -:  -: -:  -:  -:  -:  cU
> Mel Bohince
> Pjt Mgr, 
> Arkay Packaging Corporation
> feet at att.net
> http://home.att.net/~melbohince/
> 




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