Cannot import cgi.py -- scripts broken

Sun Apr 18 10:49:41 EDT 2004

yazzoo <yazzoo at null.net> wrote in message news:<rBUfc.32639$aD.32463 at edtnps89>...
> I've been banging my head over a long running script that has suddenly 
> stopped working when my ISP upgraded Apache and Suexec.  They didn't 
> specify what they did, but I presume it was the latest updates.
> 
> My problem is that any script that tries to import cgi.py breaks.
> 
> For example, the following script:
> 
> 	#!/usr/bin/python
> 	print """Content-type: text/html\n\n"""
> 	import cgi, sys, string, os
> 	print """<html>hi</html>"""
> 
> fails with the following message in apache's error log.
> 
> Traceback (innermost last):
>    File "hello.py.cgi", line 3, in ?
>      import cgi, sys, string, os
>    File "/usr/lib/python1.5/cgi.py", line 422, in ?
>      import urllib
>    File "/usr/lib/python1.5/urllib.py", line 25, in ?
>      import socket
> ImportError: libssl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file 
> or directory
> 

looking for libssl.so.2,

> 
> My ISP's tech support confirms that the file is still available on the 
> server in the directory /usr/local/ssl/lib/libssl.so
> 

libssl.so not the same as libssl.so.2

> any clue's?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Lester

though functionaly they may be.

Regards, Paul Clinch