python on apache - getting 404
- by Kirby
I edited this question after i found a solution... i need to understand why the solution worked instead of my method?
This is likely to be a silly question. I tried searching other questions that are related... but to no avail.
i am running Apache/2.2.11 (Ubuntu) DAV/2 SVN/1.5.4 PHP/5.2.6-3ubuntu4.5 with Suhosin-Patch mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.6.2
i have a script called test.py
#! /usr/bin/python
print "Content-Type: text/html" # HTML is following
print # blank line, end of headers
print "hello world"
running it as an executable works...
/var/www$ ./test.py
Content-Type: text/html
hello world
when i run http://localhost/test.py i get a 404 error.
What am i missing?
i used this resource to enable python parsing on apache. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91101
From that same thread... the following code worked.. why?
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import time
def index(req):
# Following line causes error to be sent to browser
# rather than to log file (great for debug!)
sys.stderr = sys.stdout
#print "Content-type: text/html\n"
#print """
blah1 = """<html>
<head><title>A page from Python</title></head>
<body>
<h4>This page is generated by a Python script!</h4>
The current date and time is """
now = time.gmtime()
displaytime = time.strftime("%A %d %B %Y, %X",now)
#print displaytime,
blah1 += displaytime
#print """
blah1 += """
<hr>
Well House Consultants demonstration
</body>
</html>
"""
return blah1
