CGI script refuses to run python

[vikas]

The binary is in /usr/local/bin.
The libraries are in /usr/local/lib/python2.0.

Python 2.0 (#1, Feb 26 2001, 14:23:43)
[GCC 2.95.2 19991024 (release)] on freebsd4
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>>>
>>>
>>> import sys
>>> sys.path
['', '/usr/local/lib/python2.0', '/usr/local/lib/python2.0/plat-freebsd4',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.0/lib-tk', '/usr/local/lib/python2.0/lib-dynload',
'/usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages']
>>>

The scripts run fine when run from a shell. They just don't when run from
CGI.

Like I mentioned, I ran a CGI script like yours but even smaller.
It does not even get past the header (#!/usr/local/bin/python).

Basically when python is invoked it appears to load up a set of default
modules.
(site, posix, posixpath, stat, UserDict)

It complains about not finding those modules.
Actually I was wrong in my prev post. It was never able to find any modules.
The server error log still shows the same error, but the browser shows no
error as long as the CGI script does not itself import any modules, only
prints.

Vikas

Sheila King <sheila at spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 15:46:25 -0700, "vikas" <viznogoud at yahoo.com> wrote in
> comp.lang.python in article <tcpt6vsugf6b62 at corp.supernews.com>:
>
> :Ok, I have the same error.
> :However, my sys.path has the correct paths in it.
> :i.e. python is installed in /usr/local/lib/python2.0.
> :
> :I tried making shell scripts to set the env
> :and then try to invoke python. It seems like if
> :I set the PYTHONPATH before invoking python,
> :it works. But any python scripts invoked by that
> :python scripts don't work!
> :
> :Any ideas?
> :
>
> It really doesn't sound to me, like you have it installed in the right
place.
> If you did, surely it would be able to find everything it needs for the
> scripts to run??? Is the binary in /usr/local/lib also? Usually it should
be
> in /usr/local/bin I believe.
>
> Run a script similar to this one (This one is a cgi-script, meant to be
> invoked from a browser, but it should run at the command line, too):
>
> ------------------------------------------
> #! /usr/local/bin/python2.0
>
> import sys
> print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"
>
> print sys.version
> print
>
> for path in sys.path:
> print path
>
> print
> print "Those are the paths"
> ------------------------------------------
>
> That will show what the path actually are. If you do not have the binary
> installed where it expects, and the libraries installed where it expects,
I'd
> think you'd be having problems.
>
> The work-around that I had, before I re-installed, was to reset the paths
> inside of each script right at the beginning of the script, to point to
the
> directories where the binary and the libraries were installed.
>
> --
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>
>
> :Sheila King <sheila at spamcop.net> wrote in message
> :news:hhanctghter75fs890kk98ttmue18pi2p2 at 4ax.com...
> :> Try this URL:
> :>
> :> http://www.aota.net/ubb/Forum3/HTML/001564-1.html
> :>
> :> --
> :> Sheila King
> :> http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/
> :> http://www.k12groups.org/
> :>
> :>
> :> On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 14:53:46 -0700, "vikas" <viznogoud at yahoo.com> wrote
in
> :> comp.lang.python in article <tcn5o76ljn8sc3 at corp.supernews.com>:
> :>
> :> :Hi,
> :> :I am trying to get this python cgi script to work on apache.
> :> :I made a test script to break down the problem.
> :> :
> :> :So now the script is just:
> :> :#!/usr/local/bin/python
> :> :
> :> :I still get the same error in the web server log:
> :> :
> :> :Could not find platform independant libraries <prefix>
> :> :Could not find platform dependant libraries <exec_prefix>
> :> :Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
> :> :'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> :> :
> :> :How do I fix this?
> :> :
> :> :Thanx
> :> :Vikas
> :> :
> :>
> :
>