Here is a newbie question: how do I get the server examples in the Preview chapter of "Progamming Python" (Lutz) to run? The code is supposed to be a little webserver on which to run examples, but when I run it it I get "permission denied". Running it as root gets "address already in use".
Here is the code (it's example 2.32); comments are from Lutz, not me: webdir = '.' # where your html files and cgi-bin script directory live port = 80 # default http://localhost/, else use http://localhost:xxxx/ import os, sys from BaseHTTPServer import HTTPServer from CGIHTTPServer import CGIHTTPRequestHandler # hack for Windows: os.environ not propogated [deleted, I'm running linux] . . . os.chdir(webdir) # run in html root dir srvraddr = ("", port) # my hostname, portnumber srvrobj = HTTPServer(srvraddr, CGIHTTPRequestHandler) srvrobj.serve_forever() # run as perpetual demon END CODE My other python scripts run fine. I'm running linux (debian). I'm not running an webserver (that I know of anyway). I've fiddled with adding the subdirectory with the code to the python path, but this doesn't seem to help either. I'm new to all this, but I've been able to make the other stuff work, and I can't even find the beginning of what I'm supposed to research to fix this. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and thanks for your time and patience. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
