Apache web server and CGI

Jeffrey Froman jeffrey at I.slack
Mon Aug 9 10:36:00 EDT 2004


Lad wrote:

> How can I set up Apache web server to use Python for CGI processing( for
> file *.py). Thanks for help

A simple method would be to include the line:

AddHandler cgi-script .py

in your httpd.conf. This should work fine so long as your .py files start
with a proper invocation of the python interpreter (i.e.,
#!/usr/bin/python). You might also want to look at mod_python
(http://www.modpython.org/).

Jeffrey



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