On Sunday, September 6, 2015 at 2:16:04 PM UTC+2, Laura Creighton wrote: > In a message of Sun, 06 Sep 2015 04:50:23 -0700, tropical.dude....@gmail.com > wr > ites: > >Hello everyone, > > > >I want to use python for web development but I > >could not configure my Apache server to run python > >with the guides I found on the internet. > > > >Can anyone help me configure http.server > >to run python scripts? > > > >I ran the command python -m http.server --cgi to start the http server, > >and if I put index.html, I will see the page but if I use > >index.py, it doesn't show the page, I can only see the > >directory listing of the files and when I click on > >index.py, it doesn't run the code, I can see it just > >like in the editor. > > > >Can anyone help me out? > > > >Thanks in advance. > > What operating system are you running? It sounds to me as if you haven't > configured apache to add a Handler for python scripts, or you have, but > forgot to restart apache after you did so. > > Laura
I am using Windows 7, I followed the instructions, modified httpd.conf many times, restarted apache many times till I gave up -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list