CGI Python problem

[Tim O'Toole]

Alas that cgi script confirmed python is not installed on the server
machine (which I had assumed it was).

Looks like game over with this avenue of trouble shooting?

On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Tim Chase <python.list at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
>> As for writing some perl, not too sure how to do that, but from the
>> information in phpinfo I logged onto the webserver machine and did a
>> "whereis python" - it came back blank! Of course doing a whereis perl
>> gave a non-blank answer. So this seems to be the route cause of my
>> trouble.
>
> Indeed!  I made the rash assumption that it executed from the command line
> (or as a lynxcgi from within Lynx).  Not having Python will make it awfully
> hard to run python apps.
>
> While it's possible that Python is installed, but simply not found by
> "whereis" (I don't know this tool), you could try
>
>  which python
>
> if it's in your path, or the more brute-force search:
>
>  find /usr -name python
>
> (ignore any permission-related responses) to see if it's installed somewhere
> that's not on your path.  If not, you may have to either request that your
> admins install Python, or (if you've at least got a compiler on the machine)
> build your own deployment of Python in your user directory.  Others on the
> list may be able to direct you to good resources on building Python in
> non-standard locations (I'm admin on all the boxes I use, or the admins
> already have python2.4 or later installed).
>
>> Now to work around that, I've tried to change the shebang in the
>> python test file to the location of python on my local machine, but
>> still no use?
>
> If your CGI is on machine A, and your local machine is machine B, changing
> the shebang won't help, as you've noticed.
>
> You might try creating a shell-script CGI to give you the info you need:
>
>  #!/bin/sh
>  # saved as ~/public_html/cgi-bin/foo.cgi
>  echo Content-type:text/plain
>  echo
>  echo Python is found at:
>  which python
>  # find /usr -name python
>  echo Use the above as your shebang path.
>
> and then
>
>  chmod ugo+x ~/public_html/cgi-bin/foo.cgi
>
> You should then be able to browse to
>
>  http://yourserver.example.com/~totoole/cgi-bin/foo.cgi
>
> to see if/where the python executable is stored for use in your shebang
> line.
>
> Yet another round in the game of troubleshooting...
>
> -tkc
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