Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 14:53:38 -0500, John Salerno > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > >> I guess it might be the latter. What I want is to add Python capability >> to the server where my website is running, so that I can write Python >> web apps and incorporate them into my HTML files. > > Unfortunately then, you have to ask the owners of the server > hardware if /they/ will give you that capability. (If you own the server > then we are back to the first side -- you need admin/root access to > install/configure the webserver to allow Python) > > Many ISP's basic (home user, say) accounts are lucky to allow > anything more complex than a hit-counter. Netcom > (->Mindspring->Earthlink) used to have a scheme by which one could > create data entry forms; the submit button had to be set to a > pre-defined (ISP supplied action) which did nothing more than package > all the CGI field information into an email, and send the email to a > user-defined email address. There was no instantaneous feedback possible > (unless one had the ability to read the email with a program, perform > the updates locally, and upload a response to the website in time for a > timed refresh to find the page). > > The next step up tends to be sites built using things like > Zope/CMF/Plone -- but even those servers require pure Python logic to be > "installed" as a "product"; and only certain accounts have that > privilege -- others are restricted to things like Zope's DTML, TAL, etc. > templating languages to manipulate data. > > Above that would be something like Apache with Python defined as a > valid scripting language AND with security set to allow users to > upload/install scripts.
Thanks. I'll have to check with my domain host, but I guess it might not be possible. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
