John Salerno wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > > >>Fortunately they've given you the information you need to run CGI >>scripts. Try installing this script in your cgi-bin directory as test.py >>(you may have to set it executable): > > > Thank you! I desperately needed to test it, and that seemed to work. I > didn't have to make it executable though. I wonder why?
Probably because the cgi-bin directory is specially marked to contain executables. If you drop the script in another directory you will almost certainly just see the source of the script. Making it executable *might* cause it to run, but that would depend on exactly how your server is configured. Certainly my sites all have a line like ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "c:/apache/cgi-bin/" in the httpd.conf file. ScriptAlias tells Apache that the files in the directory are scripts. The first argument is the address in web-space, the second the address on disk. You'll find you can affect *some* configuration items by creating files called .htaccess in your web content directories, but that's a ways down the road yet. If the script ran, you will now know waht version of Apaceh you're running with! regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
