[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >John Abel wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>I'm running Python 2.3.5/2.4.2 on OSX 10.4.2, and am trying to run CGI >>scripts using the builtin Apache. For ease, I've symlinked my custom >>modules into the /Library/Python/2.3/site-packages directory, and they >>import OK via command line python. However, when I perform the import >>from a cgi script, python fails to find the module. It is definately >>something to do with the symlink, as the CGI works OK if I copy the >>directory into site-packages. Is there some oddness with Python/Apache >>and symlink imports? >> >>Any pointers would be most useful. >> >> > >If running OS supplied Apache, it runs as the user "www". Because this >isn't you or root, check that the directory your symlink points at is >accessible to others as well as any directories above it back up to the >root directory. If it isn't accessible, the user Apache runs as will >not >be able to find and use the files. When you are copying the directory >you are possibly giving it read access for others in the process and >that is why it works then. > >Graham > > > Yup, that's the problem. Just got to figure out OSX's permissions, now.
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