How to execute python script on the BaseHTTPSERVER created by python?
cgi, http, python, webserver
Solution
You are on the right track with `CGIHTTPRequestHandler`, as `.htaccess` files mean nothing to the the built-in http server. There is a `CGIHTTPRequestHandler.cgi_directories` variable that specifies the directories under which an executable file is considered a cgi script (here is the check itself). You should consider moving `test.py` to a `cgi-bin` or `htbin` directory and use the following script:
cgiserver.py:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
from http.server import CGIHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
handler = CGIHTTPRequestHandler
handler.cgi_directories = ['/cgi-bin', '/htbin'] # this is the default
server = HTTPServer(('localhost', 8123), handler)
server.serve_forever()
cgi-bin/test.py:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
print('Content-type: text/html\n')
print('<title>Hello World</title>')
You should end up with:
|- cgiserver.py
|- cgi-bin/
` test.py
Run with `python3 cgiserver.py` and send requests to `localhost:8123/cgi-bin/test.py`. Cheers.
Problem
I have simply created a python server with : ``` python -m SimpleHTTPServer ``` I had a .htaccess (I don't know if it is usefull with python server) with: ``` AddHandler cgi-script .py Options +ExecCGI ``` Now I am writing a simple python script : ``` #!/usr/bin/python import cgitb cgitb.enable() print 'Content-type: text/html' print ''' <html> <head> <title>My website</title> </head> <body> <p>Here I am</p> </body> </html> ''' ``` I make test.py (name of my script) an executed file with: ``` chmod +x test.py ``` I am launching in firefox with this addres: (http : //) 0.0.0.0:8000/test.py Problem, the script is not executed... I see the code in the web page... And server error is: ``` localhost - - [25/Oct/2012 10:47:12] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 - localhost - - [25/Oct/2012 10:47:13] code 404, message File not found localhost - - [25/Oct/2012 10:47:13] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 - ``` How can I manage the execution of python code simply? Is it possible to write in a python server to execute the python script like with something like that: ``` import BaseHTTPServer import CGIHTTPServer httpd = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(\ ('localhost', 8123), \ CGIHTTPServer.CGIHTTPRequestHandler) ### here some code to say, hey please execute python script on the webserver... ;-) httpd.serve_forever() ``` Or something else...