a little more help with python server-side scripting

[Steve Holden]

John Salerno wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
> 
> 
>>Fortunately they've given you the information you need to run CGI
>>scripts. Try installing this script in your cgi-bin directory as test.py 
>>(you may have to set it executable):
> 
> 
> Thank you! I desperately needed to test it, and that seemed to work. I 
> didn't have to make it executable though. I wonder why?

Probably because the cgi-bin directory is specially marked to contain 
executables. If you drop the script in another directory you will almost 
certainly just see the source of the script. Making it executable 
*might* cause it to run, but that would depend on exactly how your 
server is configured.

Certainly my sites all have a line like

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "c:/apache/cgi-bin/"

in the httpd.conf file. ScriptAlias tells Apache that the files in the 
directory are scripts. The first argument is the address in web-space, 
the second the address on disk.

You'll find you can affect *some* configuration items by creating files 
called .htaccess in your web content directories, but that's a ways down 
the road yet.

If the script ran, you will now know waht version of Apaceh you're 
running with!

regards
  Steve
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