On Saturday 24 September 2011 01:48:29 you wrote: > Ricardo wrote: > > Hi everyone > > I'm trying to use the cgi library to create a python script and loading > > it from a web page. I have already done the necessary imports, and the > > default commands to receive data from "html" are written too. The final > > version is something like this: > > > > #!/usr/bin/python > > > > import subprocess > > import cgi > > import cgitb > > > > cgitb.enable() > > > > input = cgi.FieldStorage() > > > > …. my code (do something with input)…. > > > > > > #printing the response > > > > print "Content-Type: text/html" > > print > > print "<TITLE>My title:</TITLE>" > > print "</HEAD>" > > print "<BODY>" > > print ….. bla bla … > > print "%s"%theoutput > > print "</BODY>" > > > > Besides, my call from my index.html is like this: > > <form action="/scripts/python_script.py" method="post"> > > > > <input name="inid" type="text" size="20" class="input" /><br/><br/> > > > > <input type="submit" value="accept" class="button"/> > > > > </form> > > > > well, the thing is that when i do the call from the browser: > > > > http://localhost/index.html > > > > V > > > > put the data and click on the "accept" button > > > > V > > > > http:/localhost/scripts/python_script.py > > > > I only get the python_script.py as a plain test by response (the script > > printed on my browser). I have already changed the permissions for > > python_script.py. I have checked the import cgi,cgitb in the python shell > > (i am using v2.7) and they work fine. So, i don't know what it is going > > wrong here. > > > > A little help please… any idea? > > Is your webserver configured to allow cgi scripts? In the scripts > directory? For Apache see > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/howto/cgi.html > > Python also comes with a CGI Server. A quick-and-dirty setup goes like > this: > > $ cat cgi-bin/script.py > #!/usr/bin/python > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- > > import cgi > import cgitb > > cgitb.enable() > > input = cgi.FieldStorage() > > print "Content-Type: text/html" > print > print "<TITLE>My title:</TITLE>" > print "</HEAD>" > print "<BODY>" > print "Hello world" > print "</BODY>" > $ chmod a+x cgi-bin/script.py > $ python -m CGIHTTPServer > Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ... > > If you then point your browser to http://localhost:8000/cgi-bin/script.py > you should see > > Hello world > > in the browser and (something like) > > localhost - - [24/Sep/2011 08:41:27] "GET /cgi-bin/script.py HTTP/1.1" 200 > - > > in the shell. Note that the script must be in cgi-bin (or htbin) unless you > start the server with a custom script that modifies > CGIHTTPRequestHandler.cgi_directories accordingly.
Thanks a lot, for your answer. Yes, i can run scripts from /cgi-bin/. Actually I follow you example and it works really well. I didn't know at all about this CGI server. I am doing the hole thing over python now, it's nice. Thanks again. -- (...)Also, since that same law states that any system able to prove its consistency to itself must be inconsistent; any mind that believes it can prove its own sanity is, therefore, insane.(...) Kurt Gödel.
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