installing python on a server?

[John Salerno]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:53:38 -0500, John Salerno
> <johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
> 
>> I guess it might be the latter. What I want is to add Python capability 
>> to the server where my website is running, so that I can write Python 
>> web apps and incorporate them into my HTML files.
> 
> 	Unfortunately then, you have to ask the owners of the server
> hardware if /they/ will give you that capability. (If you own the server
> then we are back to the first side -- you need admin/root access to
> install/configure the webserver to allow Python)
> 
> 	Many ISP's basic (home user, say) accounts are lucky to allow
> anything more complex than a hit-counter. Netcom
> (->Mindspring->Earthlink) used to have a scheme by which one could
> create data entry forms; the submit button had to be set to a
> pre-defined (ISP supplied action) which did nothing more than package
> all the CGI field information into an email, and send the email to a
> user-defined email address. There was no instantaneous feedback possible
> (unless one had the ability to read the email with a program, perform
> the updates locally, and upload a response to the website in time for a
> timed refresh to find the page).
> 
> 	The next step up tends to be sites built using things like
> Zope/CMF/Plone -- but even those servers require pure Python logic to be
> "installed" as a "product"; and only certain accounts have that
> privilege -- others are restricted to things like Zope's DTML, TAL, etc.
> templating languages to manipulate data.
> 
> 	Above that would be something like Apache with Python defined as a
> valid scripting language AND with security set to allow users to
> upload/install scripts.

Thanks. I'll have to check with my domain host, but I guess it might not 
be possible.