Problems with setting up mod_python and Apache

[Dave Benjamin]

"John Dean" <john at rygannon.com> wrote in message
news:3f5f6b41$0$239$fa0fcedb at lovejoy.zen.co.uk...
> I have set up httpd.conf according to installation and configuration
> instructions in the mod_python documentation. Yet when I enter the
following
> URL http://localhost/test.py all I get is an Apache view of my htdocs
> directory. They if I click on test.py and open file dialog pops up. If I
> give the file a cgi extension and enter the following URL
> http://locathost/test.cgi it runs fine.  I just can't figure out what I am
> doing wrong.

Sounds like a configuration problem. Can you post the relevant lines from
your httpd.conf file? Are you trying to write handlers or are you using the
publisher module?

Dave